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55-year-old wedding cake discovered in freezer tasted 'delicious'

Rochelle Marr soaked the fruit cake in brandy and gave it a fresh coat of icing after rediscovering it during a deep clean of her freezer.

Rochelle Marr soaked the fruit cake in brandy and gave it fresh icing before serving it to her family

Three photos: A woman behind a cake, a closeup of a fruitcake and a black-and-white photo of a man and woman on their wedding day.
Left Rochelle Marr with her recently rediscovered wedding cake. Centre the cake as it looked in January 2024 after Marr found it in her deepfreeze. Right Marr on her wedding day in 1968. (Submitted by Travis Marr)

For 55 years, Rochelle Marr's wedding cake sat at the bottom of her freezer.

The intention had been to eat it on her 50th wedding anniversary, but she forgot all about the milestone.

That is, until she and her son decided to do a deep clean inJanuary and came across the fruitcake along with a note: "Do not open until 2018."

That yearmarked the50th anniversary of hermarriage to Brian Marr, a long-time doctor in the Salmon Arm, B.C., area, before he died in June 2023.

"It's been moved from different freezers along the way," Marr said from her home in Salmon Arm, 70 kilometres east of Kamloops.

WATCH | The Marr family tries the weddingcakefor the first time in decades:

55-year-old wedding cake forgotten in freezer tastes 'delicious,' bride says

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Rochelle Marr of Salmon Arm, B.C., saved a tier of her 1968 wedding cake in her freezer then forgot about it for 55 years. Having recently uncovered it, Marr threw a family gathering to give it a taste test.

The fruitcake was made by the mother of one of her bridesmaids for the 1968 wedding celebration.

There is a long-standingtraditionof saving a section of a wedding cake to eat at a future milestone, though Marr admits it had slipped her mind.

The discovery, shared online by her son Travis, went viral getting mentioned by American talk show host Kelly Ripa and being picked up by People magazine.

Everyone had one question: How does the cake taste?

'It's fruitcake, it never gets old'

The answer to that question came at a family gathering held April 19 with Marr's extended family, including children and grandchildren, some of whichtravelled fromSquamish, B.C., andToronto.

To prepare, she re-soaked the cake in brandyand made a fresh coat of icing.

Son Travis Marr filmed the gathering, including the moment everyone was brave enough to take a bite.

WATCH | Wedding cake rediscovered after 55 years in freezer:

"Delicious," came the first review, from a brother who was in the original wedding party.

"Sweet," says another. "It's good, it's fruitcake, it never gets old."

Travis said the cake "didn't taste different from any fruitcake we've ever had."

Having everyone together eating the same cake enjoyed by his parents at their wedding was, "something else," he said.

And, apparently, there's more to come: "We thought we had put a dent in it but later mom pulled out a container of more," he laughed.

With files from Jenifer Norwell

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