World's Oldest Persevered Wedding Cake, Baked In 1898 Victorian England

World's Oldest Persevered Wedding Cake, Baked In 1898 Victorian England
World's Oldest Persevered Wedding Cake, Baked In 1898 Victorian England

World's oldest persevered wedding cake, baked in 1898 Victorian England

After surviving six monarchs and lasting through two different millennia, the cake bears the scars of time. In 1940, during the Second World War, the town of Basingstoke was bombed. The town center, in which the bakery was located, was hit by a bomb in August of that year. This impact caused a great deal of damage, and yet the seemingly fragile wedding cake, already approaching half a century old at the time, sustained but a single crack. This crack remains the cake’s single imperfection, but for the discoloration that has come with age and sugar seeping from the rich cake into the previously white icing.

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