Guess what's inside this wedding cake...

Forget family heirlooms of wedding rings, antique vases and faded photos, one couple left their family something a little sweeter.

Ronald Warninger's grandparents, who married on 17 March 1915, decided to save the top tier of their wedding cake - and 100 years later, it's still here.

Their grandson Ronald was cleaning out his garage one day when he stumbled across a canning pot containing the cake that his grandparents were supposed to eat on their first wedding anniversary, but didn't quite get round to it. Along with the cake Waringer also found his grandma's mink hat, a book of poems from her friends and postcards sent to her from around the world.

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However there won't be any tucking into this century old bake, as unfortunately it has completey disintegrated, leaving only the thick icing behind.

Picture: Ronald Warninger

The cake came with a note from a friend reading, 'Dear Inez. Remember me when far away, and only half awake. Remember me on your wedding day, and send me a slice of cake.'

Ronald remembers the cake, and recalls seeing it in his grandmother's freezer where it was kept until she went into assisted living in the 1950s.

'My grandparents didn't have a good freezer and my folks bought one of those upright freezers and I remember it being packed in tin foil and being told, 'You're not allowed to touch that' but that was it. There was never any plans for it, nobody ever talked about it.' Ronald told ABC News. 'It’s in perfect shape. It’s been in and out of freezers and been handled a lot. It’s lived through a couple world wars.'

What are his plans for the special cake now? Passing it down through the family of course! Apparently his daughter in Hawaii will be getting it next, because although it's just a hollow icing shell, it's potentially one of the most uniqe family heirlooms we've heard of.

Here's to another century of the Warninger wedding cake!

Main image: Ronald Warninger

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