The Final Outcome

I came across some instrustions for icing a fruit cake in one of the books my mum and dad bought me. Six steps to perfectly iced cakes, how hard can it be?




For a first attempt i'm quite pleased with my efforts but I definately need to get some practice in to make sure the cakes look perfectly smooth. Its harder than it looks!



You can see fom the picture above that the icing is quite bumpy.I definately think I will have to use marzipan underneath the icing to help make sure that its smooth.



Although you're supposed to leave the cake 24hrs for the icing to dry, I couldn't help cutting into it and seeing what it was like.

It was pretty tasty and there was a definate taste of the Newcastle Brown Ale!