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Special Cakes
Recipes - Christening Sampler Recipe
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Special Occasion Cakes
Recipes
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Christening Sampler
Ingredients
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20cm/8in square
rich fruit cake
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45ml/3 tbsp
apricot jam, warmed and sieved
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450g/3 cups
marzipan
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675g/4 1/2 cups
sugar paste icing
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brown, yellow,
orange, purple, cream, blue, green and pink food
coloring
MATERIALS/EQUIPMENT
Method:
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Brush the
cake with apricot jam. Roll out the marzipan,
cover the cake and leave to dry overnight. Roll
out 150g/5oz/1 cup of the sugar paste icing to
fit the cake top. Brush the top with water and
cover with the icing.
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Color
300g/10oz/2 cups of the icing brown and roll out
four pieces to the length and about 1cm/1/2in wider
than the cake sides. Brush the sides with water and
cover with icing, folding over the extra width at
the top and cutting the come~ at an angle to make
the picture frame. Place on a cake board. With a
fine paintbrush, paint over the sides with
watered-down brown food coloring to represent wood
grain.
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Take the
remaining icing and color small amounts
yellow, orange, brown, purple and cream and
two shades of blue, green and pink. Leave a
little white. Use these colors It' shape
the ducks, teddy bear, bulrushes, water,
branch and leaves. Cut out a pink heart and
make the baby's initial from white icing.
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Mix the white and
pink icings together for the apple blossom flowers.
Make the shapes for the border. Attach the
decorations to the cake with a little water.
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Use the leftover
colors to make "threads". Arrange in loops around
the base of the cake on the board.
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