Royal wedding cakes

There’s been quite a bit of news out there about the wedding cake that will be served at William and Kate’s royal wedding.

What’s most interesting to me is that the official wedding cake will be a fruit cake. Literally, the type of cake that people — maybe just us Americans? — make jokes about every Christmas. Apparently, its not really a joke to Britons — they really love their fruit cake and it is a Christmas tradition for them. I don’t know how it became a joke in America, but maybe it was just lost in translation.

Check out this interview with the baker who will design the official, multi-tiered wedding fruit cake:

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