Vanity Fair

Name: Vanity Fair
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3-tier cake covered with marzipan and pink sugar paste placed on boards 3in larger than each tier, covered with pink sugar paste; 3-tier cake covered with marzipan and pink sugar paste placed on boards 3in larger than each tier, covered with pink sugar paste; 3-tier cake covered with marzipan and pink sugar paste placed on boards 3in larger than each tier, covered with pink sugar paste; baseboard 6 in larger than the base tier, covered with pink sugar paste; royal icing; template, optional; clear piping gel or topaz lustre mixed with alcohol dipping solution; glue stick; grid template; 6 dowels

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Spectacular Cakes

By Mich Turner

Published 2005

About

This design is relatively simple to achieve, yet the end result is effective and elegant. The pearls are hand piped around the top edge of the cake and a simple wide ribbon wrapped around the base. The design works particularly well with contrasting colours and equally well with different-shaped cakes.

Ingredients

You Will Need

3-tier cake covered with marzipan and pink sugar paste placed on boards 3in larger than each tier, covered with pink sugar paste
baseboard 6

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegan

Method

Position a cake board the same size as each cake carefully on each cake top and scribe around each. Lift the boards off and gently brush away any excess icing. Using a no. 3 nozzle, pipe a single row of large pearls directly over the scribed template marked on the top of each cake. Following the picture, or using the template, create hangin