I have the honour of making one of my best friend’s brother’s wedding cake in June. The cake includes a fruit layer which made me realise – I had not made a fruit cake since I had a run of fruit cake failures in the build up to Christmas.
I needed to get “back on the horse” and decided to make the fruit cake in advance, to allow it time to mature with brandy and ease up the cake baking during the days leading up to the big day. It didn’t start the best when I realised I had measured the wrong amount of mixture out for the tin I was using. This however was recoverable as it was too much mixture, so I was given the opportunity to try my new 4″ round tin still awaiting its first cake.
My husband is a big fan of fruit cake, marzipan and icing with extra cherries in. After pouring in the mixture in the 6″ tin, I then added more cherries and poured the remaining mixture into the mini tin – 2 fruits cakes, perfect. We could now taste test the cake to make sure it has cooked through and is delicious.
I decorated it in hearts for Kev, after putting on a layer of marzipan and then icing. I also used my star crimper to emboss hearts onto the cake. The fruit cake was a success yeay!
A little thank you gift to Kev for being super cake assistant xx
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