As noted byUS Weekly, the eight-tier cake consisted of a whopping 17 individual cakes.

The door was put back, of course, but not beforeQueen Elizabethmade a joke about the situation.

“She is actually very creative,” she said.

Prince William and Kate Middleton smiling on their wedding day

What’s up with the choice of flavor, though?

“Queen Victoria started with the tradition of fruitcake as a wedding cake,” she explained.

“And it was really the wealthy who could afford it and then it became more mainstream.”

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s wedding cake