WHEN Manchester United star Wayne Rooney and his fiancee Coleen McLoughlin were looking to put the icing on their wedding day celebrations — a phone call was made to a well-known Whitefield patisserie.

Slattery’s, on Bury New Road, was bestowed with the task of baking the cake fit to grace the lavish reception following the celebrity couple’s marriage ceremony on the Italian Riviera.

And the high-profile commission has brought international kudos to Slattery’s as the cake has been featured prominently in European-wide magazines and newspapers which covered the wedding in detail.

Managing director, Mr John Slattery explained: “It’s not the first time we have been involved with Coleen as we had baked the cake for her 21st birthday. This time around, we were approached by the couple’s events management company, Revellers, who were organising the wedding. We were given around two months’ notice. Coleen designed the cake herself and she came to us with her ideas which we put together.

“We sent her photographs of the cake, although we never met face to face. The cake was very pretty and classy looking.”

The large sumptuous cake was mounted over four tiers and had three separate mouthwatering fillings — sponge, chocolate and rich fruit. “It took a week to make the cake,” disclosed Mr Slattery, “And David Wilson did all the work on it himself.”

Once baked, the cake travelled to Italy along with the wedding flowers via a lorry before taking pride of place at the glittering wedding reception at a former gothic abbey near Portofino.

Mr Slattery was rather reluctant to reveal the exact cost of the cake. “Let’s just say it was several hundred pounds,” he said diplomatically.

The business has been operating for 41 years and has been based in Whitefield since 1991.