Mich Turner

Christmas Tree

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Spectacular Cakes
Spectacular Cakes

By Mich Turner

Published 2005

  • About

For a more contemporary Christmas cake, I have covered this oval shaped cake with a regal purple sugar paste. The white Christmas tree is made from a stack of white stars in different sizes studded with silver dragées. To complement the cake I have used a white star ribbon.

Ingredients

You Will Need

  • 8 in oval cake covered with marzipan and purple sugar paste
  • 100 g (3½

Method

  1. Combine the sugar paste and petal paste together and knead until smooth and pliable. Roll out to a thickness of 4mm (½ in). Cut out 2 or 3 stars of each size.

  2. Starting with the largest stars, pipe a small amount of royal icing in the centre of eac