Cakes

On every important moment in the cycle of life: on birthdays, weddings, and religious and traditional holidays, there are baked goods to share and mark the occasion. This can be bread or biscuits, but mostly and more commonly today it is a cake. Cake is so significant at royal weddings in Britain that pieces of the wedding fruit cake are wrapped carefully and packed into commemorative boxes to be sent to foreign relations, friends and members of the public. A boxed slice of Queen Victoria’s wedding cake, dating from 1840, recently fetched £1500 at auction, while a slice of Kate and William’s royal wedding cake was sold for a whopping £6000 in 2014.