Royal Wedding Cake for Ladies' Tea

A coworker sent me the recipe for Make your own Harry and Meghan inspired royal wedding cake a couple of weeks ago. Little did I know that I would actually use it so quickly. This month's Admiral's Walk Ladies Tea in the Port of Newcastle is doing a royal wedding theme and asked for mini wedding cake to go with the theme. As a royal watcher I was more than happy to do such a cake. Grandma Winnie always had royal magazines in her house that I always read when visiting. I loved pouring over the pictures.

Baking without a/c right now from the 20th floor is not fun!! The lemon curd filling kept seeping out of the side of the cake. My brother came to pick it up and he couldn't leave until I was sure it wouldn't leak. Even then I couldn't wait to hear from him that he had it in the fridge safe and sound.

I was able to make this cake only having to use one cake recipe. Each tier was 2 layers with lemon curd filling. 8", 6" and 4". Mr. T picked up the Elder flower syrup from IKEA for the icing. It really adds a nice flavour to the icing and is less expensive than using vanilla right now. I used some silk flowers to finish off the decoration.

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