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How to ice a xmas cake with royal icing...
Royal icing christmas cake
How to ice a Christmas cake
Icing a Christmas cake can be done a few weeks before you plan to serve it, so get it done early and it’ll be one less thing to worry about on the big day. If your decoration skills are somewhat limited, it is easy to make a plain iced cake look spectacular with nothing more than a piece of ribbon and a little holly.
Ingredients
1
Place the cake on a cake board and, using a pastry brush, brush with apricot jam
2
Sprinkle a little icing sugar on the work surface and roll the marzipan out to a thickness of about 1cm.
Keep turning it as you roll to keep an even shape
3
Fold the marzipan over the rolling pin and lay on to the cake
4
Use your hands to smooth down the marzipan, pulling down gently and making sure there are no creases
5
Trim away the excess marzipan using a small sharp knife
6
Sprinkle the surface with a little more icing sugar, then work the sugar paste for around 30 seconds to warm it slightly
7
Roll the sugar paste out to a thickness of 1cm, turning as you roll
8
Moisten the marzipan with a litt
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