Games Cake

Name: Games Cake
Yield: Serves 20–30
Ingredients: 2½ cups (570 g) butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pans; 2¾ cups (570 g) superfine sugar, plus more for the pans; 4½ cups (570 g) flour, plus more for the pans; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (115 g) ground almonds; 1½ lb (680 g) ready-to-roll white fondant icing; 1 package (1 lb/450 g) royal icing mix, or sugar icing (see Recipe Note, using four times the amount of each ingredient); Food coloring, in assorted colors; 8 eggs; 1 lb (450 g) golden raisins; 1 lb (450 g) dried currants; ½ lb (225 g) mixed candied citrus peel, roughly chopped; ½ lb (225 g) glacéed cherries, roughly chopped; 1½ lb (680 g) marzipan, plus more for leveling the cake if needed; ½ cup (140 g) red currant or raspberry jam

Preparation info

Serves
20–30

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

About

The annual cricket match that takes place at the end of season 3 is a very serious business. Sports were an opportunity not just to get fit but also to entertain, in this case the wider community of Downton Abbey. Enterprising bakers quickly realized there was an opportunity to market cakes specifically for such occasions, and, with the Downton kitchens stretched as usual, this may have been an occasion for which an outside caterer was used—perhaps Bettys of Harrogate, where Rose

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Cake
Microwave
Vegetarian

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