Traditional Christmas Cake, Marzipan & Royal Icing

Service Description

Traditional Christmas Cake Class in Swindon Duration: 4 Hours Spaces: Maximum 3 students Course Overview A proper Christmas cake. Rich fruit cake, marzipan, and a snow peaked royal icing finish, done in a day and ready to sit on your table on Christmas Day. Your fruit cake is baked and matured in advance, because a good one needs weeks rather than hours. What you learn is everything that happens after that, which is the part most people get wrong or never attempt at all. One honest note on the finish. A flat, glass smooth royal icing needs three coats over three days and cannot be done in a class. What you will learn instead is the snow peaked finish, which is the traditional English Christmas cake look, achievable in a day, and to my eye far prettier. The class takes three, so it stays small and you get proper attention throughout. What You'll Learn • How to level and prepare a fruit cake for covering • Apricot glaze and why it matters • Rolling and applying marzipan without cracks or air bubbles • Getting neat corners and a clean bottom edge • Making royal icing to the right consistency • Applying it and creating snow peaks • Piped snowflakes and borders • Ribbon, decorations and finishing • How to store it and how to cut it What's Included • Your own matured 6" fruit cake • Marzipan, royal icing, decorations, tools and equipment • Step by step tuition throughout • A glass of fizz, mince pies and Christmas music • Your finished cake boxed to take home • Recipes emailed afterwards • Exclusive student discount for future classes Who This Class Is For Anyone who wants to make the family Christmas cake themselves, and bakers who make one every year but have never been happy with the covering. Good to Know This is the one class that is not vanilla sponge. It is a traditional rich fruit cake, baked and matured by me in advance so it is ready to decorate on the day. Allergens: contains wheat (gluten), egg, milk, nuts (almonds in the marzipan) and sulphites (dried fruit), and may contain alcohol. Made in a kitchen that handles other allergens. If you have a food allergy, please contact me before booking. Getting Here Unit 54, BSS House, Swindon SN2 2PJ. Free parking on site. Full directions are sent with your booking confirmation.