Big Cakes: Christmas trees

Name: Big Cakes: Christmas trees
Yield: Makes 40 slices
Ingredients: 1 pot green food colour paste; 15 ml brandy or boiled water; 4.5 m 3 mm-wide red satin ribbon; icing sugar, to dust; 1 pot clear edible glitter; 7 cm tree cutter; 3.5 cm tree cutter; 50 g bag white royal icing; 1.3 kg white sugarpaste; 25 cm round cake drum (optional); 1 large red-and-white candy cane, cut into 6mm lengths; 1 kg marzipan; 4 tbsp apricot jam; 2-3 sugar cubes

Preparation info

Makes
40 slices

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A little forest of sugarpaste trees with candy cane trunks and sparkling sugar snow adorn this easy-to-make cake.

Ingredients

1 × Rich Tamarind Fruit Cake

Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Colour 300g of the sugarpaste 2 shades of green, making the darker tone first. Seal in separate polythene bags. Turn the cake upside down on to a serving plate, securing with a dab of jam. If there are any holes or the cake is a slightly dodgy shape, correct it now with bits of marzipan. Once you’re happy, gently warm the remaining jam in a small pan, the