Couple celebrates anniversary by eating their wedding cake for 60 years

Every August since 1955, Ann and Ken Fredericks from Satellite Beach, Florida, crack open a metal Maxwell House Coffee tin to share a bite from the top layer of their original wedding cake.

“Everybody just looks at us with these amazed looks when they hear about it,” Ann told Florida Today.

On their wedding day, Ann’s grandmother made a three-layer fruit cake and had it iced by a baker. They ate most of the cake at their reception but saved the top layer.

Now, 60 years after they got married, they keep it fresh by pouring brandy over it and eat it every anniversary.

The Fredericks told ABC News that each year they cover the cake in Saran wrap and put it in the tin, storing it in a closet at room temperature for their next anniversary.

“Our children are appalled that we would be eating something that’s 60 years old,” she told Florida Today. “But believe me, it’s quite tasty, as long as it’s got enough brandy on it. And it’s never made us sick.”

But after so many years it’s bound to have affected the cake.

“It’s a little dry, and it doesn’t taste bad. I mean, it doesn’t have an objectionable taste, but it’s a little dry,” Ann told ABC News.

The Fredericks met at Syracuse University in New York, where Ann was a nursing student and Ken was a music education graduate student. The couple married at Grace Episcopal Church in Nyack on August 19, 1955.

The couple plan to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary this weekend with a dinner surrounded by close ones.