Wigwam

Name: Wigwam
Yield: Serves 15-20
Ingredients: 3 large eggs, lightly beaten; caramel-ivory food colour paste; 120 g sultanas; juice of ¾ lemon; 1½ tsp vanilla extract; 335 ml whole milk; 200 g icing sugar; 160 g unsalted butter, softened; 1½ tsp salt; 270 g caster sugar; 3 tsp baking powder; 420 g self-raising flour; 4 tbsp cider, or 1-2 tbsp Calvados/apple brandy; unsalted butter, for the tins; 1½ tsp ground ginger; egg yellow food colour paste; 3 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 kg white sugarpaste; edible glue; 450 g eating apples (prepared weight), peeled, cored and quite finely diced; 300 ml sunflower oil; icing sugar, to dust; 300 g black sugarpaste; red food colour paste; Matchmaker chocolates (5 for the Wigwam and 2 for the fire); 120 g light muscovado sugar

Spiced Apple Cake with Cider Buttercream

Preparation info

Serves
15-20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Take this cool wigwam cake along to the festival, or chill out in the garden instead. Perfect for any festival goer’s birthday celebration. If you want to make this as a ‘normal’ cake, decrease all quantities by one-third and bake in two 15cm cake tins.

Ingredients

For the Cake

unsalted butter, for the tins
420 g self-raising flour
3 tsp baking powder

Cake
Birthday
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 170°C/fan 160°C/340°F/gas mark 3½. Butter three 15cm, 7.5cm deep, round cake tins and line the bases with baking parchment. If you only have two 15cm round tins, then make the full amount of cake batter, d