Wedding Fruit Cake Recipe Uk

My difficulty is that i m unable to find the quantities of ingredients for my size 10 and 12 tins.

Wedding fruit cake recipe uk. A rich fruit cake does take a while to cook as it needs to be baked at a fairly low temperature. To make matters worse i m dyslexic so hopeless at calculations. Dust a work surface with icing sugar and roll out 500g 1lb 2oz of the marzipan until it is large enough to cover the top and sides of the fruit. Hi lindsay i m making our daughter s wedding cake using delia s rich fruit cake.

It s easier than you think and the best part is the fruit cake can be stored for weeks before you re ready to cover it with rolled fondant icing and more of your wedding cake decorating ideas a day or so before the wedding day. Let the fruit cool completely before making the cake. Thank you hugely in hopeful anticipation. If you prefer you can feed the cake with spiced rum sloe gin whisky sherry or madeira.

Especially with large cakes. Brenda houghton see all 624 recipes recipe videos. Paint the fruit cake all over with the apricot jam. The great thing about making a fruit cake is that it can be made well in advance of the big day.

We have traditional 3 tier wedding cakes fruit cakes carrot cakes chocolate sponge cakes red velvet cupcakes and even a beautiful french style croquembouche recipe. Wedding fruitcake was also initially embraced by american colonists. Makes a great base for a christmas or wedding cake decorate as you like. A wedding was and is to this day a time of celebration and as such it calls for a cake to match the occasion dodd says.

Double line the cake tin with well buttered baking paper to stop the outside of the cake from drying out during the long cooking time. Baking a traditional rich fruit cake. Fruit cake recipes have been around for years and the most traditional fruit cake recipe is the wedding fruit cake. The actual cake was baked in march giving the cake two months to mature and plenty of time to work on the intricate design.

When it comes to serving the cake some royals don t actually serve the cake during the wedding reception. Please can you possibly help me or perhaps point me in the right direction. Once the cake is ready and the wedding approaches the top tiers of the cake are actually saved and preserved. Need to make a fabulous cake or an array of gorgeous cupcakes for a wedding.

This moist fruit rich cake is so packed with flavour that you will not notice it has none of the fat of traditional recipes.