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| ROYAL WEDDING Cakes
Royal Wedding Cakes
updates by Joyce Barslow


William & Kate's Wedding Cake

Kate used the language of flowers to select the 17 different floral designs for their wedding cake, each symbolizing a particular quality … and naturally including the Sweet William - that grants one smile.


Kate ordered the main wedding cake, left, commissioning luxury cake designer Fiona Cairns to make a gigantic multi-tiered fruit cake decorated with cream and white floral decorations. It is a British tradition to choose fruitcake for weddings and Cairns is famous for these types of cakes.

Cairns says Kate knew exactly what she wanted: “She used the language of flowers and had quite a few ideas that led us to how she would like her wedding cake to be - quite traditional with a modern twist really,” she said.

Each tier was made exclusive by slight, handmade decorations that were personally requested by Kate. The metaphorical features of Buckingham Palace were reflected on the cake, but most of the decorations were flowery, and each has a meaning.

"Kate has selected these flowers,” said Cairns. “For example, the bridal rose symbolizes happiness, the oak and the acorn symbolize endurance … and naturally the Sweet William.

A team of 10 persons worked on the enormous fruitcake which was big enough to cater all the guests at the reception.

Prince William breaks royal cake tradition
Cookies and chocolate for Groom's cake
Prince William broke tradition and personally requested a groom’s cake made of cookies and chocolate to be served alongside the couple’s official wedding cake, pictured left.

The groom’s cake is a wedding custom linked with the southern United States.

“It was literally covered in chocolate decoration,” Paul Courtney, the cake head chef at cookie-makers McVitie Cake Company who made the cake using a secret recipe given to them by royal insiders.

The cake contained 17 kilos of chocolate and some 1700 of the company’s “Rich Tea” brand cookies enough to feed all guests.

Former royal chef's recipe
Prince William’s Royal Wedding Chocolate Biscuit Cake Recipe is in former Royal Chef Darren McGrady's cookbook Eating Royally Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen, pictured right.

"The cake is also his grandmother’s favorite cake,” says McGrady. “I used to prepare it for both of them when they had Sunday tea together and the Queen knew her grandson William would be joining her from Eton.” For McGrady's update visit theroyalchef.com.
Royal Wedding Cakes

Prince Charles & Princess Diana
Not just one cake would do for Prince Charles and Princess Diana, who served 27 at their July 29, 1981, wedding. While most were donated by royal watchers, the couple's official cake was prepared by chef David Avery of the Royal Naval Cookery School.

Topping out at more than 5 feet high, the cake, left, was adorned with both the Prince and his family's royal coat of arms, the couple's first initials and a spray of roses, lilies of the valley and orchids.

Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip
Charles's mum and dad, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, celebrated their Nov. 20, 1947, wedding with a 9-ft. tall, four-tier cake that weighed in at a whopping 500 lbs.

Crafted by McVitie and Price Ltd., right, the same biscuit company whipping up dessert for William and Kate's big day, the showstopper even depicted scenes from the couple's lives.

Crown Princess Victoria & Prince Daniel
When Sweden's Crown Princess walked down the aisle with Daniel Westling on June 19, 2010, the country's Association of Bakers & Confectioners gifted the couple their official wedding cake.

Weighing 550 lbs., the decadent dessert, left, was made up of 11 tiers, each in the shape of a lucky four-leaf clover.

Prince Andrew & Sarah Ferguson
Spirits were very high at the July 23, 1986, wedding of Prince Andrew and Duchess Fergie, who served their guests a 5½-ft. marzipan and rum-soaked cake, right.

The towering treat, which was prepared at the navy supply school HMS Raleigh, featured 15 ingredients, including rum, brandy and port, and was large enough to be cut into 2,000 slices.

Prince Edward & Sophie Rhys-Jones
Dispensing with a customary English wedding fruitcake, Prince Edward and his bride selected a seven-tier Devil's Food cake for their June 19, 1999, wedding, left.

Topped with tennis rackets (in a nod to the fund-raiser where the couple met), the 10-ft. tall confection took baker Linda Fripp and her staff 515 hours to create.

Continuing to break with tradition, the Earl and Countess of Wessex cut their cake prior to serving dinner – something that was downright 21st century.

King Abdullah Bin Al-Hussein & Queen Rania
It does cut like a knife! For their June 10, 1993, wedding reception, Jordan's Queen Rania and King Abdullah's enormous multi-tiered, rectangular-shaped cake – decorated with crowns and lace embellishments – was sliced down to size with a sword, right.

King George VI & The Queen Mum
The official wedding cake of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later the Queen Mother) and then-Prince Albert, Duke of York, was put on display in Reading, England, prior to their April 26, 1923, nuptials.

Hordes of onlookers queued up to vie for a view of the ornate, 10-ft. tall confection, left.

Crown Prince Pavlos & Princess Marie-Chantal
Greece's Crown Prince Pavlos and heiress Marie-Chantal Miller took the phrase "let them eat cake" to heart at their July 1, 1995, nuptials, serving 300 smaller cakes – one per table – in addition to their main confection.

The design of the eight-tiered centerpiece by baker Colette Peters was inspired by a china pattern from the Royal Collection, right.

Prince Rainier & Princess Grace

When Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly wed Monaco's Prince Rainier on April 19, 1956, her six-tier wedding cake, above, proved fit for a princess.

Given to the newlyweds by the pastry chefs at Monte-Carlo's famed Hôtel de Paris, the treat's upper two tiers featured a built-in cage that held a pair of live turtledoves – they were released when the couple cut into the cake with Prince Rainier's sword – and was topped off with a revolving miniature of the bride and groom that played "Ave Maria" and Mendelssohn's "Wedding March"

Source: People.com

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