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  • 18-23cm fruit cake covered with marzipan
    and ready-to-roll white icing
  • 250g ready-to-roll white icing
    (see 'Try' tip)
  • pink, green and orange food colouring
    (or use colours of your choice)
  • 1 quantity soft royal icing
    (see 'Try' tip)
  • thin red ribbon
  • orange, green and pink Smarties
    plus 3 small gift boxes

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal0
  • fat0g
  • saturates0g
  • carbs0g
  • sugars0g
  • fibre0g
  • protein0g
  • salt0g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Knead the ready-to-roll icing until smooth, then split into three equal pieces and colour each with colouring. Roll out to approx ½cm thickness and, using a template, cut out eight stocking shapes. Set aside.

  • step 2

    Make the royal icing and colour as before. With the end of a skewer, dot small 'spots' all over the stocking shapes (or use a piping bag). Set aside to dry. Keep the coloured icing covered with cling film until later.

  • step 3

    Fix the ribbon around the top edge of the cake, using a thin line of icing to help it stick. Using a little leftover coloured icing, ‘hang’ the stockings on the cake, just underneath the ribbon, in alternating colours. Top the cake with Smartie-filled boxes and scatter Smarties over the cake and cake board.

RECIPE TIPS
USING READY-TO-ROLL WHITE ICING

Lightly brush the surface of the cake with cooled boiled water. Dust a surface with icing sugar and knead 750g ready-to-roll white icing until softened and smooth. Roll out to a round and ease the icing over the cake using the rolling pin to help. Guide the icing over the edges of the cake, then smooth the surface with your palms. Trim the excess with a sharp knife.

To make royal icing put 1 egg white in a large bowl and sift in 200g icing sugar, stirring with until smooth.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2005

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.4 ratings

gervais

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

I did this decoration a few years ago and got the boxes from craft shops, they were flat packed first. i have also seen them in good newsagents, a very simple but effective design

parkroyal11

maybe you could make the boxs from the ready roll iceing in different colours they dont have to be open and then put some ribbon around them with say some edible glitter think it would be nice to eat them if you wanted.

georginaryder1

I f anyone has made this cake, could they please tell me where to get the boxes from on top as i cannot find them any where!!

umailandheba

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

thats realy a marvelous creation

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