My Mum was turning 60 and on of my Aunts decided to throw her a surprise party! So I offered to make the cake.
I decided on a 2 tier, as I was having to transport it from South Yorkshire to Scotland so anything bigger and I don't know how I'd have managed it.
Bottom tier was fruit cake, the same recipe as the fruit cake tier from my daughter's christening cake with an extra ingredient of cranberries.
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| Wet ingredients, butter, sugar, treacle, eggs. |
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| Mixing in the fruit and the spiced flour |
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Fresh out of the oven
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| Cooled and levelled ready for marzipan |
Once the cake was cooled and levelled I then rolled out a sheet of marzipan and covered it with it. I left the cake for 24 hours before covering with the fondant icing.
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| Covered with Marzipan |
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Covered with marzipan and fondant
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Put that cake to one side and started on the top tier. Madeira cake (plain sponge). I had to make 2 of this tier as the 1st one went soooo wrong, It bowed in the middle and then was still liquid inside - even though I had done the skewer test etc very weird! Ended up binning it and starting again.
Recipe I used was: 5 eggs, 315g self raising flour, 155g plain flour, 315g butter/soft margarine, 315g caster sugar, takes an hour to cook.
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| Baked, cooled, levelled, halved, filled with jam and butter-cream |
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Covered with fondant
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| Rolled out the coloured icing and cut circles our with circle cutters |
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Rolled out the coloured icing and then cut into equal strips with my ribbon cutter and a ruler
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| The finished article :-) |
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