Princess Eugenie's royal wedding cake breaks with tradition

Описание: (10 Oct 2018) LEADIN:
Princess Eugenie's royal wedding is set to break with tradition, serving a red velvet-and-chocolate cake to guests in Windsor.
One London-based cake maker says the couple's decision follows a general trend away from traditional fruit cakes, part influenced by Britain's last royal wedding earlier this year.
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Britain's royal family aren't known for breaking with tradition.
But there'll be a few exceptions at Princess Eugenie's wedding to liquor company executive Jack Brooksbank this Friday (12 October) in Windsor.
Buckingham Palace has announced London-based baker Sophie Cabot will be making the couple's wedding cake.
Rather than a traditional rich fruit cake, Cabot will be crafting a red velvet-and-chocolate wedding cake, billed as "a traditional cake with a modern feel."
It's a trendy break with tradition that won't surprise London-based cake maker Rosalind Miller.
Miller was rumoured to be the couple's cake maker by women's fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar before the announcement
"The traditional wedding cake would have been a fruit cake, laced with brandy or cognac, then covered in marzipan, and then covered in layers of royal icing," explains Miller.
"And they would have used plaster pillars in between each tier, to raise them up. It would have been decorated with really intricate royal ice decorations, royal ice piping decorations.
"The beauty about that is in the old days, if the guests couldn't come to the wedding, they'd have a slice of cake, take it away with them. And the fruit cake lasts.
"Nowadays, our couples, no one, except maybe the grandma, wants the fruit cake."
Miller says there's currently a trend for non-traditional wedding cakes - buttercream fillings, messily painted exteriors and real flowers.
"We've seen a lot more non-traditional wedding cakes. So, a lot of people followed the royal wedding cake with lemon and elderflower buttercream and fresh flowers," says Miller.
"So, a lot more non-traditional. A lot of things like paintings on cakes, still a lot of sugar flowers, people always like sugar flowers, but more and more the fresh flowers are becoming more popular and a less formal sort of cake."
Miller says Britain's last royal wedding contributed to a trend for non-traditional cakes.
For the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, American master baker Claire Ptak crafted a three-part layered lemon and elderflower cake.
She wasn't skimping on ingredients - some 200 Amalfi lemons were used, as well as ten bottles of Sandringham Elderflower Cordial, made with elderflower from Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
"I think it followed a trend, but it set it in cement," says Miller.
"That trend was already there, but it obviously, sort of, legitimised it for a lot of people. You can have a slightly less formal, more sort of rustic buttercream wedding cake rather than a sort of traditional, royal-iced, fondant-covered with royal icing."
Harry's older brother, Prince William had a far more traditional cake for his wedding to Kate Middleton in April 2011.
The royal couple chose a multi-tiered traditional fruit cake decorated with cream and white icing.
But what makes the perfect royal wedding cake? Out with tradition say visitors to London's Cake & Bake Show.
"I think it depends on the rank of the person getting married," says visitor Stephanie Scoggins
"I think you got to go for tradition and perhaps fruit and stuff when it's somebody quite high up. But, I think like Eugenie, I think she can do what she wishes, that's up to her."
The couple have been dating for several years.

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