Big Cakes: Maypole

Name: Big Cakes: Maypole
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 pot glue; 1 plastic or cardboard tube, about 15cm long and 1cm in diameter; 1 m 10 mm-wide white satin ribbon; 1 kg white sugarpaste; icing sugar, to dust; 5 small sugar flowers; 70 cm 10 cm-wide ribbon (mine was green with white flowers); 50 g bag white royal icing; 1 × Orange Drizzle Cake; ½ × recipe orange Buttercream

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

For centuries an expression of joy and hope celebrating the start of spring. You could even cover the whole cake with a carpet of sugar flowers. I have specified the ribbons I used, but do take these instructions only as a guide.

Ingredients

1 × Orange Drizzle Cake
½ × recipe orange Buttercream

Cake
Baking
Spring
Vegetarian

Method

To make the maypole, twist the white ribbon all around the tube tightly and glue at both ends. Next, take the 6 lengths of coloured 3mm ribbon and, starting at one end, wind them together tightly round and round the tube. Again, the ribbons need to be fastened at the bottom of the pole (I took them inside the tube and glued firmly). At the top end, secure them inside the pole, then cascade them