Celebration bow cake

Name: Celebration bow cake
Ingredients: 5 eggs, beaten; a few drops of almond extract; 275 g/10 oz/1¼ cups soft tub margarine, plus extra for greasing; 275 g/10 oz/scant 1½ cups natural caster (superfine) sugar; 2.5 ml/½ tsp baking powder; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup ground almonds; 275 g/10 oz/2½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; paste food colourings, such as yellow, pink and blue; paste food colourings, such as yellow, pink and blue; 1 kg/2¼ lb sugarpaste icing; paste food colourings, such as yellow, pink and blue; 90 ml/6 tbsp sieved (strained) apricot glaze; 700 g/1 lb 9 oz almond paste; 15 ml/1 tbsp milk; 15 ml/1 tbsp glycerine; paste food colourings, such as yellow, pink and blue

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Adding a little glycerine to this delicate almond cake helps it retain its moisture for longer, so you can make it ahead of time. The cake is ideal for any type of celebration, and you can vary the icing colours to suit. Small icing cutters are useful for quick-and-easy cake decorating.

Ingredients

275 g/10 oz/2½ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour
2.5

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Grease and line the base and sides of a 20cm/8in square cake tin (pan).
Sift the flour, baking powder and almonds into a large bowl. Add the margarine, caster sugar, eggs, almond extract, milk and glycerine and be