The Royal Wedding Cake

Their wedding cake weighed 225 pounds.

The royal wedding cake. Queen elizabeth ii and prince phillip s wedding cake in 1947 weighed 500 pounds stood at nine feet tall and took two. The cake per british custom dating back to pre refrigeration days is usually a dense brick fruitcake that. Also different was the presentation.

For the cake 4 ounces granulated sugar. Her majesty the queens favourite afternoon tea cake by far. Royal wedding cakes are generally fruit forward so the floral y addition was unexpected.

With just one day until the wedding kensington palace gave the couple s followers a look behind the scenes at how claire ptak the founder of violet bakery and official royal wedding cake baker. In fact just one slice of wedding cake from prince charles and princess diana s wedding would ve cost you 2 000 in 2015. Ingredients for the cake 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature plus more for the pans 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest from 1 lemon.

In the history of royal wedding cakes as with royal everything things have been stiff. The official wedding cake for the wedding of the prince of walesand lady diana spencer was made by the royal navy s cookery school hms pembroke at chatham. This cake is probably the only one that is sent into the royal dining room again and again until it has all gone.

The cake was 5ft tall and weighed 255 lbs wedding of prince andrew duke of york and sarah ferguson 1986. The couple shared two sons prince harry and prince william who have captured world s heart just as their mother did before diana s untimely death in 1997. Although 700 may be hard for you to stomach that s really chump change compared to what the royal family spends on their wedding cakes.

Prince charles and princess. 4 ounces dark chocolate.