Victory of the Victorian sponge

So it is a sponge! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding cake was a good old Victorian sponge cake. Though it is one of the classics in British baking, having a sponge cake for a royal wedding is a huge shift from the tradition of British wedding cakes. According to custom, it had to be a fruitcake with royal icing. Interestingly, both cakes have roots from the Victorian era and the legacy of the sweet-toothed queen who surely loved her cake.