Marzipan On Christmas Cake

Roll 2 1 2 pounds 1 25 kg marzipan evenly into a circle large enough to cover the top and sides of the cake.

Marzipan on christmas cake. Eleni tzirki from the waitrose cookery school shows you how to apply layers of marzipan and icing to beautifully finish a festive fruit cake. The pack in the middle is the marzipan pack. The marzipan layer on a wedding or christmas cake helps to trap moisture in the cake and stop it staling plus it provides a smooth surface so that the final icing is neater. Stand the cake on a cake board or cutting board and lightly dust with sifted confectioners sugar.

If you want the stollen ready for christmas you should try to make it four five weeks before the holidays start. Time 45 minutes to marzipan the cake no cooking time. A traditional christmas cake absolutely has to have a marzipan layer. Having advised as above we have marzipan and iced a cake on the same day.

Often christmas cake is later served that often is a fruit cake drizzled with marzipan icing and sugar frosting. Homemade almond icing is superior to the ready made so i ve included it here if you have time to make it. We show you how to marzipan a cake. This means that by the time you cut that first slice on christmas day the cake is as mouth wateringly delicious as when you pulled.

It tastes better if it has had time to age a little. A marzipan stollen is a fruit bread traditionally offered at christmas time in germany. The sweet hint of almonds is a vital part of the overall taste of the cake but the marzipan also helps to trap in all the moisture in the cake. You can also watch how to make stollen in our online cookery school video below.

A uniquely british tradition are christmas crackers that often accompany food which were invented in 1846. To store the stollen simply wrap it in aluminum foil and keep it in your. Delia s almond icing marzipan recipe. Brush all of the exposed surfaces of the cake with 1 4 cup warmed and strained apricot jam.

I know because i m looking at two cakes right now. A one egg mix makes 375g so you will probably have too much in which case use the surplus to stuff dates or make some stollen see recipe below. Marzipan a christmas cake in theory we all know how to marzipan a christmas cake but in practice it can be a bit hit and miss not to mention uneven.