The Reconstruction of A Royal Cake

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America's Test Kitchen

Society & Culture, Food, Arts

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In 1947, the Peek Freans bakery of Bermondsey made a beautiful royal wedding cake for Queen Elizabeth’s nuptials to Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh. It was a showstopper: 6 feet tall, 6 tiers, and covered in beautiful white royal icing and exquisite decorations. The Peek Freans bakers were so proud of the cake, that they immediately made a replica, which sat on display for decades. Queen Elizabeth’s replica wedding cake would end up in a museum. Until one day in 2015, when it was destroyed by vandals. They turned it upside down, splashed it with red paint, and marked it with “A” for anarchy. But that wasn’t the end of the story. Over the next two years, hundreds of people would come together to make yet another replica of the replica royal wedding cake: For the Queen, for craft, or for Bermondsey. Take our Season 4 survey! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to this season's presenting sponsor, Kohler. They design innovative sinks and
0:04.8	faucets for people who do their best work in the kitchen.
0:10.4	It was 2015. Someone had made a terrible discovery in a disused museum in
0:16.9	Burmency, an area in southeast London. A local man, one Steve Cornish, went to the museum to investigate.
0:25.0	And when I got to the top of the stairs I looked across and I just couldn't believe what I saw.
0:30.0	It was unbelievable.
0:31.0	What he saw was so heinous,
0:34.4	he was at a loss for words.
0:36.4	I was in absolute shock.
0:39.1	The graffiti in there was all over the walls. It really was shocking to see the graffiti.
0:45.0	A crime had been committed. In its wake, a scene of devastation.
0:51.0	That opened the case up and literally turned the cake from tier two to the top tier upside down.
1:00.0	A replica of Queen Elizabeth's wedding cake was destroyed.
1:05.0	And they're throwing red paint all over it from top to bottom and just let it drip down causing this unbelievable horrific effect and they taped a great big
1:19.2	a letter A over the glass front of the panel, which we now know is meaning the word
1:26.2	anarchy, A for anarchy.
1:29.8	But the story wasn't over, because over the next couple of years, hundreds of people would come
1:39.6	together and spend thousands of hours to recreate this intricately iced replica of Queen Elizabeth's
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