Cakespy: Christmas Goose Trompe L'oeil Cake

Name: Cakespy: Christmas Goose Trompe L'oeil Cake
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams buttercream frosting, your choice; 1 single layer cake, your choice; 397 grams marzipan; 12 servings Optional: a batch of cornflake wreath dough or candy salad, for serving; 12 servings Red, yellow, and green or blue food coloring

This recipe serves 12. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly recipe has 460 calories, 6g of protein, and 20g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up buttercream frosting, single layer cake, candy salad, and a few other things to make it today. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Christmas. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 5 hours.

Instructions

Take your cooled cake out of the pan. Crumble it with your fingers until you no longer see any large pieces of cake.

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Frying Pan

Add about 6 ounces of buttercream frosting to the crumbled cake.

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Frosting

Mix together, using the back of a large metal spoon, until thoroughly combined. If your mixture is not coming together into a malleable, shape-able form, add a bit more frosting, but don't add so much that it is too moist and sticky to handle.

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Frosting

Form into a ball and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for several hours in the refrigerator, or put in the freezer for about 20 minutes if time is at a premium. You want the mixture to be firm, but not frozen.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Remove from the deep chill, and divide the ball of cake-and-frosting in half. Take one half and set to the side. Divide the other half into half again, so you have three parts altogether: one large, and two smaller.

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Frosting

From the large piece, pinch off a fist-sized piece of the dough. Divide it in half, and set these pieces off to the side.

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Dough

Take the largest segment and form it into an oval.

With the two halves of the initial piece of dough, form two "drumsticks" by making teardrop shapes, and then flattening the teardrop side. Set to the side.

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Chicken Drumsticks

Dough

With the two small pieces of dough taken from the large piece, form two little "arms" by rolling the dough into logs and then bending it in the middle.

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Dough

Return the shaped cake pieces to the refrigerator while you prepare the marzipan to cover them.

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Marzipan

Take your marzipan out. Reserve 1/4 of one of the logs of marzipan, and wrap it in plastic so it doesn't dry out.

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Marzipan

Wrap

With the rest of the marzipan, add mostly yellow, a touch of red, and a very tiny drop of either blue or green, and mix until you have a rich, burnt sienna type tone.

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Marzipan

Add more yellow and red as needed, but be very sparing with the blue or green.

Roll out the marzipan between two sheets of waxed paper or plastic wrap until you have a thin layer, but not so thin that holes form when you handle it.

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Marzipan

Roll

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Cover the "arm" and "body" sections with marzipan. Using the white reserved bits, form "bones" for the drumstick sections, and adhere to the cake dough. Then cover these bits with marzipan. You don't have to worry about fully covering both sides, as one side will be adhered to the body.

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Chicken Drumsticks

Marzipan

Dough

Put all the pieces together, using sugar and water as "glue" if needed.

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Sugar