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Feast Your Eyes on the World's Oldest Wedding Cake

Feb 17, 2011 – 6:23 PM
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Buck Wolf

Buck Wolf Senior Correspondent

In 1898, when this cake was baked, Orville and Wilbur Wright were running a bicycle store, reading about birds and thinking how cool it would be to build a flying machine.

Guinness World Records calls this 113-year-old Victorian era confection the "World's Oldest Cake." Hitler's bombs caused a crack in the hardened outer shell, but tests reveal that the fruit cake is still moist in the middle.

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