Wedding Fruit Cake

Made this cake about 6 weeks ago.

Wedding fruit cake. Remove from oven and allow to stand 5 minutes then turn out on wire rack to cool. Fruit cake recipes have been around for years and the most traditional fruit cake recipe is the wedding fruit cake. When it comes to serving the cake some royals don t actually serve the cake during the wedding reception.

These yellow cake layers are brushed with rum syrup and filled with passion fruit curd and rum and vanilla bean buttercream while the top of each tier is spread with more passion fruit curd. The great thing about making a fruit cake is that it can be made well in advance of the big day. Here is the recipe for prince william and kate middleton s vintage glamour wedding cake shown above which includes the instructions for making the tamarind fruit cake batter icing cake.

Sieve the flour mixed spice and nutmeg together in a separate bowl. Bake small cake 2 1 2 hours medium cake 3 1 2 hours and large cake 4 to 4 1 2 hours. Hibiscus flowers lychees coconut mini pineapple and bananas and tamarillo crown the cake.

Cream butter or margarine and sugar together in a third bowl. Put the raisins sultanas cherries mixed peel chopped almonds ground almonds rind and juice of lemon and orange into a bowl and mix well. Turn batter into prepared cake tins filling each about 2 3 full and spreading batter evenly.

Make your own wedding cake with our step by step recipe. Once the cake is ready and the wedding approaches the top tiers of the cake are actually saved and preserved. Bake in center of oven.

Sugar roses don t have anything on these straight from the field decorations. Iced it this week for a friend s 60th really disappointed as the cake was very mosit and did not hold together when it was cut. Line deep cake tins with a double layer of greaseproof paper.