Kensington Palace has released the first look at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s elaborate wedding cake.
The couple have eschewed tradition and opted for a lemon and elderflower cake over a fruit cake.
It’s being made by American pastry chef Claire Ptak, who is now based in London.
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A new video, released by Kensington Palace, shows Claire working on the cake at Buckingham Palace and explaining the ingredients and flavour combinations.
She said: “We’ve been so lucky to work at Buckingham Palace to bake the cake and ice the cakes.”
“The cake is made up of lemon sponge. It has an elderflower syrup drizzle on the sponge and it has an Amalfi lemon curd and then a Swiss meringue buttercream with elderflower.”
Claire said she’ll assemble the cake in-situ at Windsor Castle, where the wedding takes place, on Saturday, with the decorative flowers being added at the last moment.
Explaining how the cake tastes, she said: “Where the buttercream is sweet, the lemon curd is very tart, so you get a really lovely thing happening when you take a bite, which is to get all of those flavours and sensations.”
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She added: “Hopefully it’s perfectly balanced!”
The cake contains 200 Amalfi lemons, 500 organic eggs from Suffolk, 20kgs of butter and 20kgs of flour.
There’s also 20kg of sugar and ten bottles of Sandringham Elderflower Cordial in the mix.
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