There used to be a tradition in parts of the United States of baking and eating election cake. It was originally to provide voters with something to sustain them on the long journey to the polling station. It's an idea that is thought to have originally been brought over by the British.



Bryce Evans, Associate Professor at Liverpool Hope University who wrote a paper on election cakes, tells Sarah the roots of the tradition in Britain and how it developed over time in the US, and Bea Vo, founder of Bea's of Bloomsbury and Butterscotch London, who baked us a British version of an election cake explains how she adapted the old recipe.



(Image: Bea Vo and her election cake, credit: BBC)