But Manchester United star David Beckham and Spice Girl Victoria Adams never got chance to taste it.

They left the fruit cake behind at a Cheshire hotel after they announced their engagement in January last year.

But this week - after the millionaire couple married in Sunday's lavish ceremony at a Dublin castle - the forgotten cake was raising funds for a local school.

Goostrey Primary PTA was given the cake by villager Lisa Hocknall who had won it in a raffle at Rookery Hall Hotel - the luxury venue chosen by Beckham to pop the question.

Now the PTA hopes to sell the cake - complete with iced figures of Posh and Becks - to help buy new computers for the school.

During a live national radio phone-in on Thursday, listeners offered ideas of what could be done with the cake. "One even suggested giving it out instead of the FA cup," said PTA member David Smith.

"And The Sun newspaper offered us £500 for it."

Now -18 months after they baked the cake as a gift to the couple - Rookery Hall Hotel wants it back.

"They offered us a computer instead and then a weekend for two at the hotel as a raffle prize," said David.

"We don't really know yet if they were serious about it."

The weekend break will be the first prize at the PTA summer ball on Saturday.

But the future of the cake is still uncertain.

It could be donated to the Manchester United Museum or Sheffield's Pop Memorabilia museum.

"It's a fruit cake so it should be all right to eat but it has been around for so long now that nobody wants to cut it," said David.

"If it's varnished it will keep forever."

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