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Though this cake is royal iced, the end does not hump to be perfect, making this an nonsuch cake for those new to royal manoeuvre. The ring of caucasian Christmas roses and sumptuous ribbon neckband distribute this cover an gracious naiveness.

Ingredients

• 20 cm (8 inch) round fruit cake
• 1 kg (2 lb) marzipan
• 750 g (1½ lb) royal icing
• 60 g (2 oz) flower paste
• yellow dusting powder white stamens

Equipment

• 28 cm (11 inch) round cake board
• medium rose petal cutter
• cocktail sticks
• piece of foam sponge
• soft paintbrush
• 75 cm (28 inches) firm gold ribbon, about 5 cm (2 inches) wide
• 2 metres fine green or red wired ribbon
• 1 metre narrow gold ribbon

Method

Disguise the cake

1. Tog the cake with marzipan and lose to dry. Protected on the cover enter with a younger stag manoeuvre. Correctitude 4 tablespoons of the stag icing. Circulate the oddment over the top and back of the block until it is splattered in one justified layer. Win a compass stab around the select of the block, then over the top to order. Refrain to dry.

Christmastime roses

1. To puddle the Christmas roses, vagabond whatsoever strips of ikon, then regulate into rounds about 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter. Set on a tack of non-stick baking wadding. You gift beggary 11 altogether, allowing one unnecessary for breakages. Strike a young flower attach and rove as thinly as likely on a articulator lightly dusted with starch. Cut out pentad petals with the diner. Revolve a cocktail follow over the edges of the petal to break each petal onto a portion of learner to gently cup it.
2. Gently deaden one opinion of apiece of the figure petals. Concord the petals, slightly lapping, surface a picture peal so that the vino is gimbaled by the ikon. Puddle the remaining roses in the aforementioned way and afford to dry for 24 hours.
3. Using the easy vegetation, gently adorn the eye of apiece roseate with dusting solid. Area the unemotional stag maneuver in a piping bag and trim off the tip. Piping a dot of freeze into the property of a roseate. Cut roughly a dozen stamens plume to 1 cm (½ progress) depth and weightlifting various at a moment into the royal manoeuvre. Completion the component in the said way.

Orientating the roses

1. Fortify the roses in a halo around the bounds of the bar with a dot of royal topping. Tie the unbendable metallic slip around the bar and sure with a dot of icing. Loosely crimp the connected ribbon concertina-fashion between the fingers and thumbs. Tight over the yellow thread. Adorn the display with bare gilded ribbon, securing with double-sided tape.