Name: Festive Ring
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Makes: 16-portion cake
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1–2 strips of candied angelica; 4 glacé cherries, rinsed, dried and halved; 3 tsp hot water; 175 g / 6 oz icing sugar; 175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour; ½ tsp vanilla essence; 8 pecan or walnut halves; 3 eggs; 175 g / 6 oz caster sugar; 175 g / 6 oz butter

Preparation info

Makes:
16
-portion cake

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

An attractive American cake based on a plain sponge cake but decorated prettily for Christmas. A good cake to donate to a fund-raising event.

Ingredients

175 g / 6 oz butter
175 g / 6

Method

Cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and the vanilla essence. Fold in the sieved flour very gently. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth level. Bake in the preheated oven until a wooden skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. Cool the cake in the tin for 4 minutes then turn out on to a wire rack.

To make the icin