Wedding cake

My brother-in-law just got married this summer. As we normally do her in Norway, a lot of the female guests are asked to bring a cake for the wedding.

Two hearts are carved out of sponge, filled with raspberry jam, whipped cream and chopped walnuts. In the absence of white marzipan I used premade. Not the most beautiful color, but it had to work. If you have only short time to work with the project, you can do the same as me: Buy a sponge at the store. Normally I use this basic recipe to make a sponge.

Decorating is made out of marzipan and icing. Recipe for icing is below the pictures. The bridge of the icing was created a few days before the wedding so that there would be sufficiently dried. Pattern was drawn on transparent baking paper and added over a rolling pin to get the buoy. With short of time you are not supposed to study the details so closely, but it's amazing what can be hidden behind a little icing, and other decorations:)

 

Recipe for icing:
2 egg whites
400 grams icing sugar
Lemon drops

Put all ingredients into the mixing bowl. Stir for about 15 minutes. This gives a very stiff and white mass. Make sure to put plastic over the icing if you are not using it right away, it becomes pretty quickly a hard crust on it. If you're going to color the icing or the marzipan, it is recommended to use Wilton icing color. Put the icing in a decorating bag with the tip you want, and drop your imagination loose!

There are a number of different shaped cake pans to buy. If you don't have the one you need you can cut out the shape you want with a knife.

Cool off the cake before you cut it in parts for as many layers you want.  Do not forget to sprinkle each layer of the cake with such as milk, juice or pineapple juice, if not you get to eat a very dry cake.

Remember the double portion to have double cake!

This is just a basic recipe to use with many kinds of decoration. You can also vary filling if you want; different kinds of jam, vanilla cream, chocolate pastry puff or anything else you might want and like.

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