Name: Sugar-dusted snowflake cake
Prep time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Cuts into 10 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 x 20cm round or 18cm square Christmas cake (see 'Goes well with', below); 4 tbsp raspberry or apricot jam, warmed and sieved; 500g pack marzipan; icing sugar for dusting; 1 ¼kg pack ready-to-roll white icing; 1 egg white frothed with a fork , or a little thin, runny icing made with icing sugar and water; preserving sugar or granulated sugar; a little edible glitter if you have it; snowflake-shaped cutters

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Sugar-dusted snowflake cake

Sugar-dusted snowflake cake

Sarah Cook

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Cuts into 10 slices

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Prep: 50 mins

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Ingredients

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1 x 20cm round or 18cm square Christmas cake

(see 'Goes well with', below)
4 tbsp raspberry

or apricot jam, warmed and sieved
500g pack marzipan
icing sugar

for dusting
1 ¼kg pack ready-to-roll white icing
1 egg white

frothed with a fork , or a little thin, runny icing made with icing sugar and water
preserving sugar

or granulated sugar
a little edible glitter

if you have it
snowflake-shaped cutters

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal1371
fat42g
saturates15g
carbs249g
sugars231g
fibre7g
protein12g
salt0.86g

low

Method

step 1

Sit the cake on a cake board or flat plate. Brush all over with a little of the jam. Roll out the marzipan on an icing sugar-dusted surface until large enough to cover the sides and top of the cake – use string to help you measure. Cover the cake and trim the excess marzipan from the bottom. Brush with jam again, knead 850g of the white icing until smooth and pliable, then roll out as you did you for the marzipan ensuring it is large enough to cover the top and sides. Lift onto the cake. Smooth the icing down and around the sides, trimming excess from the bottom, as before. Smooth out any marks with the flats of your hand, rubbing the icing to buff it to a shine.
step 2

Roll out the rest of the white icing and cut out a few snowflakes. Brush one side with a little egg white or runny icing, then dip this side into the preserving or granulated sugar to coat. Sprinkle on glitter, if using, then use more egg white or icing to stick randomly onto the cake. Leave to set for a few hrs before cutting.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2010

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