No frills are spared when it comes to getting King Charles his birthday cake but there would likely be a fair bit left over as not many people will want a slice considering the King’s ”absolute favourite’
King Charles’ favourite cake is a British classic but it still divides households across the UK.
Revealed on the website of cake maker Fiona Cairns, King Charles’ “absolute favourite” is traditional fruit cake. But that’s hardly a view shared among the wider UK.
In fact fruit cake is often seen as one of the worst baked desserts among all the offerings cooked up in ovens across the UK.
Cake experts at Jackandbeyond.com conducted a survey which asked 1,788 Brits what their preferences are and fruit cake among the very bottom. As well as fruit cake, among the least liked were mince pies, Christmas puddings and angel cakes.
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The most popular according to the survey were sticky toffee puddings, red velvet, profiteroles and tiramisu.
The cake from Fiona Cairns was presented to King Charles, now 75, on his 70th birthday at Ascot Racecourse.
The statement on the Fiona Cairns website read: “We were asked to include features into the cake that reflected Prince Charles’s love of the countryside and everything he does to support it, through his charity The Prince’s Countryside Fund. Our traditional fruit cake was requested – Prince Charles’s absolute favourite.
“Fiona and her team got to work designing and decorating the two-tier cake with delicate sugar craft shapes including rare breed animals, hens, a little basket with eggs, and things that reflect the Prince’s country pursuits – hedge laying, dry stone walling, water colour painting, gardening, his racing colours, salmon fishing and polo. The cake was also painted beautifully with meadow flowers and wild grasses.”
King Charles and Queen Camilla were recently seen in public, choosing to watch a play about family betrayal during a joint outing on May 29.
The couple visited the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to celebrate its 120th anniversary after the King was announced as patron earlier this month, taking over from his late mother. They spoke with current students about one of the school’s current productions before watching an extract of The House of Ife, performed by third-year acting students in the Gielgud Theatre.
Directed by Beru Tessema, the play is described on the RADA website as a production about one family “forced to confront the traumas they have long tried to bury”. It adds: “As the sun beats down on their North London flat, and the authoritarian head of the family arrives from Ethiopia for the funeral, tensions rise, cultures clash and past betrayals are unearthed.”
The production, which was personally chosen by Their Majesties to watch out of three currently running plays, represents the “modern RADA”, according to the Academy’s president.
