Wigwam

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

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
Baking
Vegetarian
Birthday

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