The Duchess of Sussex shared the recipe for a lemon cake that was suspiciously similar to her big-day confection on "With Love, Meghan."
Updated on January 26, 2026 12:29AM
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Key Takeaways
- Meghan Markle baked a honey lemon cake with raspberries on her Netflix show, inspired by her wedding cake.
- Unlike her $62,000 wedding cake, Meghan’s show cake was a simpler, naked-style dessert with fresh fruit on top.
- Meghan and her friend Daniel Martin reminisced about tasting her wedding cake together at Violet Cakes in London.
Few details of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's May 19, 2018, wedding at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle have gone unreported in the years since the duo tied the knot—everything from the bride's wedding dress and her hairstyle to the luncheon menu and their after-party cocktails has been widely discussed. Another element of their celebration that we know quite a bit about? The couple's four-tiered lemon and elderflower wedding cake, baked by Claire Ptak of East London's Violet Cakes. That's why the recipe Meghan made during the first episode of her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, caught our attention.
In the show's first episode, which dropped on March 4, 2025, the Duchess of Sussex prepared a lemon-flavored cake for friend and makeup artist Daniel Martin. "Well, this is a delicious cake that I made for you. It has honey in it and lemon zest," Meghan told her pal when he arrived to help decorate the confection. "You said lemon and it made me think of your wedding cake," Daniel replied. "Oh my god, yes!" Meghan answered.
The cake she whipped up on the episode was a honey lemon layer cake with fresh raspberries; on her wedding day, Meghan and Harry paired their lemon-flavored treat with elderflower instead. "Yeah, good memory," Meghan said when Martin brought up the fruity treat from her reception. Her pal then added that he remembered the dessert because he had tasted the cake ahead of the wedding. Meghan noted that the two "did the tasting together" at Violet Cakes.
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Unlike Meghan and Harry's wedding cake, which was enrobed in a thick, fluffy layer of Swiss meringue buttercream, the cake the duchess prepared on her show was a naked style, decorated with just some frosting on the top, filled with more frosting and raspberry jam, and topped with fresh raspberries. The petite treat is a more affordable option compared to the couple's actual wedding cake. According to Daily Mail, each slice of Meghan and Harry's big-day dessert was estimated to cost about $100; the entire confection was priced at over $62,000.
In an interview with Tatler on April 17, 2023, the couple's baker talked about her first meetings with the bride-to-be. “Meghan, she specifically said to me, ‘I don’t want to tell you what to do. The reason why I’ve chosen you is because I love your baking and your work and your point of view and your ethos,'" Claire said at the time. "I was like, ‘Oh my god, that’s so cool. The best job brief ever!’”
Want to try baking your own iteration of Meghan and Harry's wedding cake? The recipe for the confection Meghan made on the show is available from Netflix.
