Special Occasion Cakes Recipes - Cloth-of-Roses Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round light fruit cake

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 675g marzipan

• 900g sugar paste icing

• yellow, orange and green food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 25cm cake board

• 5.5cm plain cutter petal cutter

• thin yellow ribbon

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Method:

1. Brush the cake with apricot jam. Cover with marzipan and leave to dry overnight.

2. Cut off 675g of the sugar paste icing and divide in half. Color pale yellow and pale orange.

3. Make a greaseproof paper template for the orange icing by drawing a 25cm circle round the cake board then, using the plain cutter, draw scallops around the circle.

4. Cover the cake side with yellow sugar paste icing. Place the cake on the board. Using the template, cut out the orange sugar paste icing. Place on the cake and bend the scallops slightly. Leave to dry overnight.

5. For the roses and leaves, cut off three-quarters of the remaining sugar paste icing and divide into four. Tint pale yellow, deep yellow, orange, and marbled yellow and orange. Make 18 roses. Tint the remaining icing green. Cut out 24 leaves with a petal cutter. Dry on greaseproof paper.

6. Secure the leaves and roses with royal icing. Decorate the cake with the ribbon.