Web choose whatever colour icing you like to suit your cake.

Icing christmas cake ready roll. Usually christmas cakes need to be started the day before, with overnight soaking of. Web roll out half the marzipan to fit the top of the cake and roll out the rest in strips to fit around the sides of the cake. Web method place the egg whites in a bowl, then stir in the icing sugar, a spoonful at a time, until the icing falls thickly from the spoon.

Lift the marzipan over your cake and smooth. Brush this all over the sides and top of the cake in an even, thin layer. Web learn how to ice a perfectly smooth christmas cake with chef tutor andrew roberts.andrew uses apricot jam, golden marzipan and royal icing and this works rea.

Brush all of the exposed surfaces of the cake with 1/4 cup warmed and strained apricot jam. Web 1 place the cake on a cake board and, using a pastry brush, brush with apricot jam 2 sprinkle a little icing sugar on the work surface and roll the marzipan out to a thickness of about 1cm. Web how to marzipan and ice a christmas cake:

Dust a work surface with icing sugar and roll out a generous amount of marzipan to the thickness of a pound coin (there. In another large bowl and with clean beaters, beat egg whites and. Separate batter evenly between 2 bowls.

Dust a work surface with the cornflour or icing sugar and roll the icing out to a circle a bit bigger than the cake board and about 3mm. Gradually add to egg yolk mixture beat on low until well mixed (mixture will be thick). Keep turning it as you roll to keep an even shape 3 fold the marzipan over the rolling pin and lay on to the cake 4

Dust the ball of marzipan with icing sugar too. Let the cake dry in a cool but not cold. You want the icing layer to be at least ¼ inch thick when rolled.