King Charles’s favourite cake has been revealed – but it appears it is one that splits opinion it kitchens across the nation.

According to Fiona Cairns’ website, the King’s “absolute favourite” cake is a traditional fruit cake, although not everyone is a fan of the classic.

Indeed, the humble fruit cake often finds itself at the bottom of the dessert hierarchy, with many Brits turning their noses up at this time-honoured treat.

A survey by cake connoisseurs at Jackandbeyond.com, which polled 1,788 people across the UK, placed fruit cake near the rock bottom of baked delights. The survey also found mince pies, Christmas puddings, and angel cakes languishing in the unpopularity stakes.

On the flip side, the nation’s sweet tooth is best satisfied by sticky toffee puddings, red velvet cakes, profiteroles, and tiramisu, according to the survey’s findings, reports the Mirror.

Fiona Cairns had the honour of baking a fruit cake for the King, who turned 75, for his 70th birthday celebration at Ascot Racecourse.

Her website proudly states: “We were asked to include features into the cake that reflected [the-then] Prince Charles’s love of the countryside and everything he does to support it, through his charity The Prince’s Countryside Fund.

Our traditional fruit cake was requested Prince Charles’s absolute favourite.

“Fiona and her team got to work designing and decorating the two-tier cake with delicate sugar craft shapes including rare breed animals, hens, a little basket with eggs, and things that reflect the Prince’s country pursuits hedge laying, dry stone walling, water colour painting, gardening, his racing colours, salmon fishing and polo. The cake was also painted beautifully with meadow flowers and wild grasses.”

Recently, the King and Queen Camilla made a public appearance and chose to watch a play about family betrayal during their joint outing on May 29.

They attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) to mark its 120th anniversary, following the King’s patronage announcement earlier this month, continuing his late mother’s legacy.

The Royal pair interacted with students over the academy’s present production before they watched an excerpt from ‘The House of Ife’, performed by third-year acting students at the Gielgud Theatre.

Under the direction of Beru Tessema, the play, as described on the RADA website, is about a family who are “forced to confront the traumas they have long tried to bury”. It further details: “As the sun beats down on their North London flat, and the authoritarian head of the family arrives from Ethiopia for the funeral, tensions rise, cultures clash and past betrayals are unearthed.”

Their Majesties picked this production from three ongoing plays, which according to the Academy’s president, embodies the “modern RADA”.