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As the official baker of the royal wedding cake, British pastry chef Fiona Cairns has her work cut out for her. Cairns showed “Nightline’s” Nick Watt the plans for Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding cake, which will be a multi-tiered, traditional fruit cake with white icing.
The unbaked cake by McVitie’s, made to a secret Royal Family recipe, was a childhood favorite of the prince’s. Buckingham Palace sent the recipe to chefs at McVitie’s, who will make a wedding-sized confection including 1,700 biscuits and nearly 40 pounds of chocolate.
Here is the official recipe we used to use in the royal kitchens at Buckingham Palace to make the Chocolate Biscuit Cake that Prince William has chosen for his wedding cake. Her Majesty the Queens favourite afternoon tea cake by far.
The first published recipe for a wedding fruitcake was in 1655, for “the Countess of Rutland’s receipt for making the rare Branbury cake.” The dessert was perfect for the upper crust in pre-refrigeration Britain: It doesn’t spoil (seriously—in 2017, Antarctic explorers found a 106-year-old fruitcake left by Robert Scott’s expedition.
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