Princess Kate has a real soft spot for one delicious dessert - and it's a British classic

Princess Kate is known to be seriously sporty and to keep up a healthy lifestyle, but there is one sweet treat that she is reported to have a soft spot for - and it's a staple British choice

When it comes to sweet treats, this staple British dessert is said to be something Princess Kate has a serious soft spot for.

Whilst the future Queen is known to be incredibly sporty - and to have a bit of a competitive streak that comes out whenever she and her husband William go head to head in physical activities during their official engagements - but that doesn't mean she won't enjoy a sweet treat every now and again just like the rest of us.

Kate's preferred dessert is none other than sticky toffee pudding, a deliciously sweet and moist dish that is a favourite up and down the country. During an official engagement, her husband Prince William even confirmed that this was his wife's go-to pudding of choice when he was touring Duchy College in Cornwall, and had a chat with chef Darren Watson.

The chef had kindly whipped up another favoured pudding of the Royal Family - a chocolate biscuit cake - and presented it to William, before saying he had done a little research and found out that Kate loves a sticky toffee pudding, to which William replied, "very good".

Darren had made William a chocolate biscuit cake because he and Kate are known to enjoy it so much that it made up one of the layers in their wedding cake back in 2011 - and it was also a favourite of the late Queen Elizabeth.

"Thank you very much, that's very sweet of you, any kind of sweet thing I will take, I'm a sucker for anything chocolate and anything sweet," William said after being presented with the cake.

Former royal chef Darren McGrady has said that this cake was one of the late Queen's - who he called a "chocoholic" - preferred sweet treats. So much so, that the usual custom of leftover cake being shared out amongst staff so it didn't go to waste after afternoon tea was put aside with chocolate biscuit cake, and instead it was saved for the late monarch to enjoy over the days to come.

The former member of the royal household, who cooked for the royals for fifteen years all in all, is reported to have said to Delish, "Although I have never actually cooked for the Duchess of Cambridge, I know that sticky toffee pudding was one of her favourites". He also revealed some details about the special recipe used to make the classic pudding for the Royal Family.

"The original sticky toffee pudding recipe had apricots in. And at Buckingham Palace, we changed it to dates, and these make it much creamier and much richer in my opinion."

The revelation that Kate is seriously partial to a sticky toffee pudding came around the time of her marriage, when one of the chefs from the Old Boot Inn in Stanford Dingley, near Kate's childhood home in Berkshire, revealed she had the dish whenever she came in.

"Kate is always discreet and has always complimented the dishes with great kindness," the chef said at the time to People magazine.

They also revealed the rest of Kate's regular order: "Her favorite [dishes] are the pate on toasted brioche or the roast figs on parma ham with spicy apple chutney, followed by the tiger prawn and wild mushroom linguine...And for the [dessert], her favorite is sticky toffee pudding. It's moist and spongy."

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