diff --git a/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php b/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php
index f526a2f9190..3acfc71bff1 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php
@@ -218,8 +218,10 @@ public function cached($path) {
 			}
 
 			if (file_exists($filename)) {
+				App::uses('ThemeView', 'View');
+
 				$controller = null;
-				$view = new View($controller);
+				$view = new ThemeView($controller);
 				return $view->renderCache($filename, microtime(true));
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/DispatcherTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/DispatcherTest.php
index 24197dadb0c..d5f4f1d5b0f 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/DispatcherTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Routing/DispatcherTest.php
@@ -442,6 +442,15 @@ public function cache_form() {
 		$this->cacheAction = 10;
 		$this->helpers[] = 'Form';
 	}
+
+/**
+ * Test cached views with themes.
+ */
+	public function themed() {
+		$this->cacheAction = 10;
+		$this->viewClass = 'Theme';
+		$this->theme = 'TestTheme';
+	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1424,6 +1433,45 @@ public function testFullPageCachingDispatch() {
 		unlink($filename);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Test full page caching with themes.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testFullPageCachingWithThemes() {
+		Configure::write('Cache.disable', false);
+		Configure::write('Cache.check', true);
+		Configure::write('debug', 2);
+
+		Router::reload();
+		Router::connect('/:controller/:action/*');
+
+		App::build(array(
+			'View' => array(CAKE . 'Test' . DS . 'test_app' . DS . 'View' . DS),
+		), true);
+
+		$dispatcher = new TestDispatcher();
+		$request = new CakeRequest('/test_cached_pages/themed');
+		$response = new CakeResponse();
+
+		ob_start();
+		$dispatcher->dispatch($request, $response);
+		$out = ob_get_clean();
+
+		ob_start();
+		$dispatcher->cached($request->here);
+		$cached = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$result = str_replace(array("\t", "\r\n", "\n"), "", $out);
+		$cached = preg_replace('/<!--+[^<>]+-->/', '', $cached);
+		$expected =  str_replace(array("\t", "\r\n", "\n"), "", $cached);
+
+		$this->assertEqual($expected, $result);
+
+		$filename = $this->__cachePath($request->here);
+		unlink($filename);
+	}
+
 /**
  * testHttpMethodOverrides method
  *
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Layouts/default.ctp b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Layouts/default.ctp
index 89107d39314..f055297e29c 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Layouts/default.ctp
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Layouts/default.ctp
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-default test_theme layout
\ No newline at end of file
+default test_theme layout
+<?php echo $content_for_layout ?>
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Posts/themed.ctp b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Posts/themed.ctp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b8492b1bc15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/test_app/View/Themed/TestTheme/Posts/themed.ctp
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+posts themed themed file.
+<!--nocache-->
+<?php echo $this->element('test_element'); ?>
+<!--/nocache-->
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/ThemeView.php b/lib/Cake/View/ThemeView.php
index bd4cb885d6e..ed5a0e73bf4 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/ThemeView.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/ThemeView.php
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ class ThemeView extends View {
  */
 	public function __construct($controller) {
 		parent::__construct($controller);
-		$this->theme = $controller->theme;
+		if ($controller) {
+			$this->theme = $controller->theme;
+		}
 	}
 
 /**