Tasty headwear of a Ladies’ Day winner

Jade Taylor with her Princess Marshmallows hat

Jade’s hat covered in more than 1,000 marshmallows!

bCONFECTIONERY crazy Jade Taylor let her love of marshmallows go to her head.

The 19-year-old, from Uppermill, commissioned an edible hat made entirely from marshmallows which she wore during Ladies Day at Royal Ascot yesterday.

The metre-wide hat was specially created for Jade by Leeds-based award-winning milliner Maggz Bennett and features over 1,000 pink and white marshmallows.

And the stunning creation saw Miss Taylor win a magnum of champagne in the Racing Post’s most momentous millinery daily competition.

She said: “I am mad on marshmallows, I eat them every day. When I was thinking about what hat to wear this Ladies Day I really wanted something which was unique to me — so I thought a marshmallow hat would be just the ticket.”

She added: “I’ve told my friends that if I back a winner I really will eat my hat, which will of course be a real pleasure.”

Milliner Maggz Bennett, who owns the company Hats by Billy, said: “It was great to get the call from Jade. Her commission is the most unusual I have ever worked on.

“I had to start by designing and crafting a hat that would be strong enough to support so many marshmallows.

“Each marshmallow had to be glued on individually by hand – which took nearly three weeks to do.

“It was a painstaking process but I am so delighted with the result.”

Heather Jones, from Princess Marshmallows, which donated the sweets said: “We were tickled pink to receive the request for product to decorate the hat.

“They’re definitely fit for royalty attending Ladies Day.”

l For other examples of stylish Ladies’ Day celebrations, see Page 11.