See How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Wedding Cake Is Being Prepared
The final preparations are being made for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s May 19 nuptials at Windsor Castle—including the baking of their wedding cake.
Earlier this year, Kensington Palace announced that Claire Ptak, an American expat who runs Violet Cakes in East London, would make a lemon elderflower cake covered in buttercream and fresh flowers for the reception. “I can’t tell you how delighted I am to be chosen to make Prince Harry and Ms. Markle’s wedding cake,” Ptak told Vogue at the time. “Knowing that they really share the same values as I do about food provenance, sustainability, seasonality, and, most important, flavor makes this the most exciting event to be a part of.”
Now on Twitter, some details have been shared about just how it will be made.
The confectionary will require 200 Amalfi lemons, 500 organic eggs from Suffolk, 200 kgs of butter, 20 kgs of flour, 20 kgs of sugar, and 10 bottles of Sandringham elderflower cordial. (Sandringham House, as royal watchers will note, is the Queen’s Norfolk estate.)
“We will assemble it in situ at Windsor Castle on Saturday morning. And then add the flowers, because they obviously need to be added at the last moment,” Ptak says. “Hopefully it’s all perfectly balanced!”
According to The Guardian, the cake will be served at the lunchtime reception at Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Hall. A second, evening reception will be held later on that night at Frogmore House.
For those who didn’t score an invite, Ptak did describe how it will taste. “Where the buttercream is sweet, the lemon curd is very tart. So you get a really lovely thing happening when you take a bite,” she says.
