Lace wedding cakes
These lovely textured lace wedding cakes will make a stylish and sophisticated display on your big day. You can mix and match the colours of the plates, cakes, flowers and decoration to suit any occasion.
- 1 hr 35 mins cooking
- Makes 48 Item
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Ingredients
Lace wedding cakes
- 325 gram butter, softened
- 1 3/4 cup (385g) firmly packed brown sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 cup (85g) orange marmalade
- 2 kilogram mixed dried fruit, chopped finely
- 2 cup (300g) plain flour
- 3/4 cup (100g) self-raising flour
- 1 tablespoon mixed spice
- 3/4 cup (180ml) sweet sherry
- 1/3 cup (55g) blanched whole almonds
- 1/4 cup (60ml) sweet sherry, extra
- 3/4 cup (120g) icing sugar
- 1 kilogram ready-made white icing filigree textured plate
- 3/4 cup (240g) orange marmalade, warmed, strained silver lustre
Method
Lace wedding cakes
- 1Preheat oven to 150°C/130°C fan-force. Line four 12-hole (⅓-cup/80ml) muffin pans with silver foil and paper cases.
- 2Beat butter, sugar and eggs in small bowl with electric mixer until just combined. Transfer mixture to large bowl; stir in marmalade and fruit. Sift flours and spice over mixture, add sherry; mix well.
- 3Place 2 level tablespoons of mixture into each case; smooth surface. Bake cakes about 50 minutes. Remove cakes from oven; brush tops with extra sherry. Cover pan tightly with foil; cool cakes in pan.
- 4On surface dusted with sifted icing sugar, knead white icing until smooth. Divide icing in half; roll each half out to a thickness of 5mm. Using a 7cm round fluted cutter cut out 24 rounds from each piece of icing.
- 5Using a filigree textured plate, gently press an imprint onto each icing round.
- 6Brush cakes with marmalade; top with icing rounds. Carefully brush silver lustre over pattern on icing.
Notes
We used a plastic filigree textured plate to mark the icing, available from craft or haberdashery shops.