You Can Now Buy a Wedding Cake From the Baker Who Made Kate Middleton and Prince William's Reception Dessert

After Kate Middleton and Prince William were married on April 29, 2011, the following celebration featured an impressive wedding cake—complete with 900 handcrafted details—that cake baker and designer Fiona Cairns created. Did you love the look of their confection? Now you have the opportunity to serve one of her very own confections on your own big day. On the Prince and Princess of Wales’ 13th wedding anniversary, Cairns announced on Instagram that Waitrose Entertaining—a made-to-order food service by the England-based grocery store—now offers a line of her tiered desserts. 

According to Cairns, the wedding cakes are undecorated, providing a blank canvas that you can build off of to suit your big-day aesthetic. “We’re delighted that our range of four sumptuous wedding cakes has relaunched on Waitrose Entertaining, just in time for peak wedding season,” the caption says. “They are elegant and undecorated, ready for you to work your magic, perhaps tying them into the colour scheme with a final flourish of flowers (unsprayed, please!), taking a weight off an wedding organiser’s mind.”

Along with her caption, Cairns posted a carousel of images of her cakes for inspiration, exhibiting the various ways you can style them. The first image shows an all-white, three-tier confection adorned with pearls and tied with satin ribbon, while the second demonstrates a similar design—but with four tiers and without beaded embellishments. In the next picture, you’ll find a three-tier piece, engulfed in petite florals in pink and green and pink ribbon. The final photo in the series debuts a four-tier dessert, garnished with fluffy white blooms and smaller blue-and-yellow buds.

For Kate and William’s wedding day, Cairns created a three-foot-tall design with eight tiers of traditional fruitcake. She decorated the towering treat with the bride and groom’s monogram, plus 17 significant flowers—ones that symbolized England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and lily of the valley to convey “sweetness and humility,” Cairns says. Kate’s veil and bouquet were also composed of the same blooms, which helped tell a cohesive story.

In an interview with Town & Country in 2021, the cake baker and designer shared that Kate had a specific vision for her big-day dessert. “In many ways, I would say that Kate designed her wedding cake because she knew very clearly what she wanted and did not want,” Cairns shared. “The ideas came from her. We had meetings with her, and the brief was from Kate. She put us absolutely at ease. She’s as natural and as lovely as we see her in the media. It was a wonderful process.”