A 'platinum pudding' fit for the queen: How the U.K. found its official jubilee dessert
Britain held a bake off to find a "Platinum Pudding" for the jubilee to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign. It was won by a lemon and amaretti trifle.
LONDON — Britain is getting ready to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign with a party replete with reminders of royal history and displays of the aging monarch’s modern relevance.
And proof that this jubilee will be a very British combination of old and new lies in the layers of Jemma Melvin’s “platinum pudding,” which bested almost 5,000 rivals in a special bake-off to find an official dessert to mark the occasion.
Her winning entry is a seven-layer lemon Swiss roll and amaretti trifle, a modern twist on a traditional dish that dates to the 1700s.
“I wanted it to be easy to make,” Melvin, 31, told NBC News earlier this month. “I wanted it to be summery. I know the queen likes lemon flavor.”
Royal family prepares for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum JubileeMay 30, 202204:52Melvin, a copywriter from the seaside town of Southport in northern England, said she found out the queen had lemon posset at her wedding to Prince Philip in November 1947, so she decided her recipe should be based on that.
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