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Steamy Romance Wedding Cake
You will need
Consumables
• fruit cakes round 10, 18cm (4, 7in)
• fruit cake hexagonal 25cm (10in)
• cake boards round 10, 18cm (4, 7in)
• cake board hexagonal 25cm (10in)
• hexagonal cake drums 33, 38cm (13, 15in)
• marzipan 2kg (4.7lb)
• sugarpaste white 3.8kg (8lb 6oz)
• modelling paste white 1.5kg (3lb 5oz)
• 3 large dowels
• small amount of royal icing
• paste colours navy, claret, caramel/ivory,
chestnut, liquorice (Sugarflair)
• powder colours copper, dark bronze, gold
(Squires Kitchen)
• powder colours dark silver, light silver
(Rainbow Dust)
• dipping solution (Culpitt)
• glaze spray (PME)
• food colour pen jet black (Rainbow Dust)
• sugar glue (Sugarflair)
• brown ribbon 2.5m x 16mm (100 x 3/4in)
• waxed paper
Tools
• circle cutters (Caketime & FMM)
• triangle cutters (Caketime)
• square cutters (Caketime)
• oval cutters (FMM)
• teardrop cutters (Lindy Smith)
• butterfly cutter (PME)
• ribbon cutter (FMM)
• A4 card folded length-ways into 4
• bone/ball tool (PME)
• cutting wheel (PME)
• cake smoother (PME)
• paintbrushes
• sharp knife
• tape measure
Preparation
Colour approximately 1k g of sugar paste with claret paste colour and 2.8k g with navy. You will
also need approximately 700 g ivory, 500 g chestnut and 300 g claret coloured modelling paste.
Cover all cakes with the marzipan then cover the hexagonal and 18 cm round cakes with the
navy sugar paste. Cover the 15 in drum with the remaining navy sugar paste and the 13 in drum
with claret.
Add the ribbon to both and secure with sugar glue and a pin Stick the boards together using a dab
of royal icing with corners opposing each other. Using royal icing and dowels stack the two
cakes on to the iced boards.
Step 1 :
Using 100g of claret sugarpaste make a dome to add a rounded shape to the top of the 10cm
cake. Stick using sugar glue and leave to dry. Cover both dome and cake with the remaining
claret sugarpaste and secure on top of the 18cm cake.
Step 2 :
Roll out 300g of chestnut modelling paste and using the ribbon
cutter cut 1.5mm wide strips. Measure the width and depth of
each face and cut the vertical and horizontal strips to the
required size. For the wooden texture, use the cutting wheel to