Royal Wedding Dessert Menu Will Include Fruitcake

People.com:

Sarah Haywood, a British wedding designer, tells PEOPLE the dessert is a U.K. wedding staple with its own traditions. Couples usually store the top layer of the cake in a tin and serve it at the Christening of their first child, she says.

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[dovelove]

08:32 PM on 02/24/2011

Ugh, fruit cake. I don't care how tasty some may be, they're still not my taste.

[ReesieKitty]

12:16 PM on 02/23/2011

Actually here in the States, most people think of fruitcake as those nasty, filled with preservatives and artificially colored and flavored fruit bricks that show up around Christmas. REAL fruitcakes can be totally delicious and are essentially a poundcake (who doesn't like poundcake??) made with an assortment of natural dried fruits such as dried cherries, apricots, pineapple, cranberries, figs, dates, etc. and nuts and preserved with alcohol. I've made wonderful 'dark' fruitcakes with a gingerbread base and currents, dried cherries, figs and whiskey and a 'light' fruitcake with lemon pound cake, dried apricots and cranberries and almonds and a fruit liqour as preservative. Try a REAL fruitcake and you might not think they're so gross! :)

[glenna seeley]

08:45 AM on 02/23/2011

Geez! At that wedding it will be fruitcake on the table and in the chairs around the table. Royalty -- what a bunch of leeches.

[LMPE]

11:45 PM on 02/22/2011

Fruitcake? Ya think I'm fruity? A really cool dessert would be a mountain of ice cream and dipping strawberries into a chocolate fountain, maybe some peanut butter cookies on the side. Especially if the husband and wife to-be eat like Homer Simpson.

[NevaforLeadership]

08:43 PM on 02/22/2011

All because of Robert Mugabe.

[NevaforLeadership]

08:44 PM on 02/22/2011

Sorry, on the wrong thread!

[ReesieKitty]

12:16 PM on 02/23/2011

Lol, I was totally trying to associate that to fruitcake ;)

[NevaforLeadership]

08:05 PM on 02/22/2011

Love the English tradition of fruit wedding cakes. Never have taken to sponge wedding cakes.

[lenuk]

07:51 PM on 02/22/2011

What would be the day be like if you couldn't sit down for an afternoon break with a big slab of fruit cake and a large mug of hot tea?

Not to contemplate doing so would be simply ...... well ..... uncivilised.

[flaghag]

06:27 PM on 02/22/2011

There's no way I'm going if they're serving fruit cake. No way.

[theredqueen]

05:41 PM on 02/22/2011

My mother (may she rest in peace) made rather delicious fruitcake. I think though, it was probably the addition of rather expensive single malt whiskey that allowed the "cake" to be an edible treat after several months. At least my father always applauded her effort quite vigorously.

[MsNancyMitford]

04:27 PM on 02/22/2011

Let me guess....Wedding Cake?!!!

Yes, We ALL KNOW that traditional British wedding cake is similar to what Americans know s fruitcake, but really it is not that similar.

[AllyCat7]

04:07 PM on 02/22/2011

I'm glad the articles on the royal wedding are getting so few clicks and comments. The royal family is outdated and the forefathers of America left England for a reason. The worship of this pointless family is absurd and even more absurd when the world is in a global recession. Glad Americans aren't paying attention to those bums.

[minty68]

03:27 PM on 02/22/2011

Kate doesn't strike me as a dessert-eating type of gal, anyway.

[peskime]

02:44 PM on 02/22/2011

The Brits have no palate and this proves what many of us have long known

[theredqueen]

05:45 PM on 02/22/2011

You mean you don't like bangers and mash, bubble and squeak and toad in the hole? Not to mention spotted dick with Bird's custard - an all time treat at my school.

[lenuk]

07:53 PM on 02/22/2011

Hmmm .... spotted dick with Bird's custard -- one of the things that made the Empire great.

[mj121]

03:44 PM on 02/23/2011

Which is why British food restaurants outnumber Italian/pizza restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Chinese restaurants and American restaurants in the U.S., and the British are known the world over for their food, ahead of France, Italy, etc. :-)

[cef911f1]

08:03 PM on 02/22/2011

Well, on one hand I have to agree with you. In all my travels I have only been served one meal that I couldn't actually eat and it was served in England. On the other hand, I do like fruitcake.

[ReesieKitty]

12:18 PM on 02/23/2011

My cousins in Wales gave us several lovely meals and 2 huge homemade teas with tons of great food. We also ate at a lot of terrific pubs and had the best mac and cheese I had ever eaten in Wales. Maybe you need to slip over there the next time you're in the UK? ;)

[FPhoebe]

02:26 PM on 02/22/2011

They wait to eat the top layer until the Christening of their first child? How long can this stuff last, exactly?

[wolfiegirl]

04:06 PM on 02/22/2011

It's eaten on the first anniversary OR the christening of the first child, whichever comes first. Stored in a cool dry place, wrapped in a liquor soaked cheesecloth, it can last that long. In Britain, with low humidity, that's not a problem.

[ReesieKitty]

12:19 PM on 02/23/2011

They may even go all modern and just tuck it in the freezer nowadays ;) that's what we did with the top of our wedding cake. We'll eat it on our first anniversary.

[MsNancyMitford]

04:27 PM on 02/22/2011

It's frozen.