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The odds that Betty Crocker would be asked to bake the wedding cake for Prince William and his fiancée may seem about as likely as Spam showing up on the couple's hors d'oeuvres list, but that hasn't stopped the icon of a certain kind of middle-class American domesticity from trying to get in on the royal wedding action.

And dare we say that the old gal has done a pretty good job of it.

With much fawning hoopla, Betty Crocker has created four different wedding cakes for Will and Kate in anticipation of what no doubt will soon be dubbed the "wedding of the decade" on April 29. Each cake takes as its theme part of the classic British wedding tradition of "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."

Planning a wedding is enough to drive any normal couple to drink, much less the successors to the royal throne.

Thus, we won't fault Prince William and princess-to-be Kate Middleton if they need to sand away their stress with a cool pint of beer -- or four. If that's the case, the couple should order a keg of the aptly named Kiss Me Kate, a commemorative brew crafted by Nottingham, England's Castle Rock Brewery.

"Kiss Me Kate will be elegant, tasteful and British to the core," head brewer Adrian Redgrove said of the pale ale, which will be released about a month before the April 29 wedding.