Special Occasion Cakes Recipes - Teddy Bear Christening Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm square light fruit cake

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 900g marzipan

• 800g sugar-paste icing

• peach, yellow, blue and brown food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 25cm square cake board

• crimping tool

• corn-flour, for dipping fine pain-brush

• wooden cocktail stick

• peach ribbon

• small blue ribbon bow

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Method:

1. Brush the cake with the apricot jam. Roll out the marzipan and use to cover the cake. Leave to dry overnight.

2. Color 500g of the sugar-paste icing peach, then roll it out. Brush the marzipan with water and cover the cake with the icing. Place the cake on the board. Using a crimping tool dipped in corn-flour, crimp the top and base edges of the cake.

3. Divide the remaining sugar-paste into three. Leave one/third white and tint one/third yellow. Divide the last third in two, tint one half peach and the other blue.

4. Make flowers from the peach and blue sugar-paste. Leave to dry. Reserve the blue trimmings. Make a yellow teddy bear. Paint on its face with brown food coloring. Give it a blue button. Leave to dry. Make a blue blanket. Frill the white edge with a cocktail stick. Secure the frill to the blanket with water.

5. Decorate the cake with the ribbon, place the bear on top under its blanket, securing with royal icing. Secure the flowers and the bear's bow-tie in the same way.