Star sparkle cake
A super-simple yet effective Christmas cake decoration, especially if you want a modern looking cake
Ingredients
- 20cm fruitcake, see 'Goes well with'
- 5 tbsp apricot jam (optional)
- 750g golden marzipan
- 750g white ready-to-roll icing
- three 5-pointed star cutters - small, medium and large
- 30g pack small gold balls
- approx 65cm length of wide ribbon
Method
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Lift the cake onto the cake board or a plate
and cover with jam, marzipan and – brushing
with water around the sides of the cake
only – ready-to-roll icing. Trim at the base.
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Press star cutters gently into the icing,
stopping when you get to the marzipan.
Pull the star shapes out with the cutter, or
ease it out with the tip of a knife. Stamp out
a couple of small stars from re-rolled
trimmings of icing (from icing the cake) and
sit them inside the large star-shaped spaces.
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Sprinkle the gold balls into the gaps and
tie the ribbon around the cake. Can be decorated up to a week ahead.
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