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Can you post your really good fruit cake recipes please
going to have a go at one

also anyone do cake decorating
I used to and cant remember how you put marzipan on and then fondant icing
ie do you have to use some icing paste on top of fruit cake then put on marzipan
then more icing paste then put fondant onto marzipan...to stick them down?

Isn't it a thin layer of marmalade on top of cake to help the marzipan stick?

mallosa wrote:Isn't it a thin layer of marmalade on top of cake to help the marzipan stick?

I use sieved apricot jam under the marzipan. Isn't it marzipan under royal icing? Or just fondant, but not both marzipan and fondant surely? Fondant goes on top of butter icing I think.

Added: hey, what do I know? http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/techniques/co ... dant_icing

thanks

found it on that bbc too and then remembered

apricot jam with bit of water sieved on fruit cake
then on marzipan brush with water then add fondant


right anyone got some nice fruit cake recipes please

I made a fruit cake once at school.It was in Religous Knowledge.We had to make this cake from verses out of The Bible.Our RK teacher,he never wore socks for some reason,gave us various verses and we had to get the ingredients from them.If my memory serves me well, and it usually does when it suits me,i came first.
Can't remember the ingredients now though.

I'm not a baker, MrsSRD uses Delia's Christmas cake recipe from her original Cookery Course adjusted to be wheatfree.