Web to decorate your christmas cake without marzipan you can either fill and ice a cake with the buttercream, or you top the cake with the fruit and nut crust.

Christmas cake no marzipan. Web put the batter into the prepared baking pan. However, you could use chopped nuts instead or even leave the cake pops plain. Web 1 tbsp black treacle.

Now keep it again on a medium flame and add butter to it. This method takes the guesswork out and gives a smooth, even base for icing. Wrap a ring of aluminum foil (folded in half), so that it is about 2″ above the rim of the pan and clip to hold together with a metal paper clip or one as in the photo above.

The pictured cake in this post is decorated with a layer of marzipan (almond flavoured frosting) then topped with white fondant. This helps the cake to bake evenly. Are any of your christmas dessert recipes suitable for freezing?

Web how to ice christmas cake with fondant. The more traditional christmas fruit cake in that book also contains ground almonds for the same reason. Web ideally marzipan the cake up about two weeks before christmas and then ice it a week (or less) before.

About 3 tbsp apricot jam, warmed and sieved. 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. Can you replace the alcohol in these.

Web 3 ingredients notes. This is more likely if you use homemade marzipan and royal icing. Keep the pan on low flame.