Games Cake

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

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
Vegetarian

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