Novelty and Fantasy Cakes Recipes - Glittering Start Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round rich fruit cake

• 40ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 675g marzipan

• 450g sugar paste icing

• 115g royal icing

• silver, gold lilac shimmer, red sparkle, glitter green and primrose sparkle food coloring and powder tints

• paint brush

• 25cm round cake board

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Method:

1. Brush the cake with the apricot jam. Use two-thirds of the marzipan to cover the cake. Leave to dry overnight.

2. Cover the cake with the sugar-paste icing. Leave to dry.

3. Place the cake on a large sheet of greaseproof paper. Dilute a little powdered silver food coloring and, using a loaded paintbrush, flick it all over the cake to give a spattered effect. Allow to dry.

4. Make templates of two different-size moon shapes and three irregular star shapes. Divide the remaining marzipan into six pieces and Tint silver, gold, lilac, pink, green and yellow. Cut into stars and moons using the templates as a guide, cutting some of the stars in half.

5. Place the cut-outs on greaseproof paper, brush each with its own color powder Tint. Allow to dry.

6. Secure the cake on the board with royal icing. Arrange the stars and moons at different angles all over the cake, attaching with royal icing, and position the halved stars upright as though coming out of the cake. Allow to set.