Novelty and Fantasy Cakes Recipes - Tablecloth Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 675g sugar paste icing

• 115g royal icing

• red food coloring

• 25cm round cake board

• spoon with decorative handle

• 8 wooden cocktail s ticks sharp needle

• skewer

• 8 red ribbon bows

• small greaseproof paper piping bags

• NO 2 and No 0 plain nozzles

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Place on the board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan. Tint 450g/3 cups of the sugar-paste icing red and cover the cake and board. Roll the rest of the red fondant into a thin rope long enough to go round the cake. Stick around the base of the cake with water. Mark with the decorative handle of a spoon. Leave to dry overnight.

2. Roll out the remaining icing to a 25cm/10in circle and trim. Lay this icing over the cake and drape the "cloth" over the wooden cocktail sticks set at equidistant points.

3. Mark a 10cm/ 4in circle in the centre of the cake. Make a template of the flower design and transfer to the cake with a needle. Use a skewer to make the flowers; the red color should show through.

4. Remove the cocktail sticks and stick on the bows with royal icing. With a No 2 plain nozzle and white royal icing pipe around the circle in the centre. With a No 0 plain nozzle, pipe small dots around the edge of the cloth. Color some royal icing red and pipe a name in the centre.