Bollywood Extravaganza

Name: Bollywood Extravaganza
Yield: Serves 16-20
Ingredients: 1 pot Sugarflair Pink food colour paste; 1 pot Sugarflair Claret food colour paste; 1 pot Sugarflair Liquorice food colour paste (optional); 1 pot Sugarflair Egg Yellow food colour paste; 100 cm of 4cm-wide ribbon, bejewelled or ornate if possible; 1.2 kg white sugarpaste; 1 pot Sugarflair Poppy Red food colour paste; 1 × 30 cm Chocolate Celebration Cake with Ganache made with chilli-flavoured chocolate; 1 pot clear edible glitter; 1 pot Sugarflair Primrose food colour paste

Preparation info

Serves
16-20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

This exotic cake is inspired by my yearly visits to India. Its dazzling array of sugarpaste full-blown roses in clashing colours reminds me of sizzling-hot spices. Even if your roses are not perfect, their sheer impact in these vibrant colours, dusted with glitter and encircled with bejewelled ribbon, will create a stunning centrepiece.

Ingredients

1 × 30 cm Chocolate Celebration Cake with Ganache made with chilli-flavoured chocolate

Cake
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

The roses can be made a few weeks ahead. Divide the sugarpaste into 5 blocks (this quantity makes about 40 × 5cm roses).

When colouring the sugarpaste, the use of black is optional. It does make a more interesting colour, but use literally a pinprick when required. Mix all the 5 colours. Create a deep red with poppy red, egg yellow and liquorice b