Rocky robin cake

Name: Rocky robin cake
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 x 20cm round or 18cm square Christmas cake (see Goes well with, below); 4 Tbsps raspberry or apricot jam, warmed and sieved; 500 grams pack marzipan; 1 kgs ready-to-roll white icing; 1 serving brown, green and red food colouring; 9 whole cloves; 1 serving black writing icing

The recipe Rocky robin cake can be made in around 1 hour and 10 minutes. One portion of this dish contains approximately 11g of protein, 36g of fat, and a total of 862 calories. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up cm round, writing icing, brown, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and dairy free diet.

Instructions

Sit the cake on a large board or flat serving plate.

Brush a little of the jam over the cake. Dust a clean surface with a little icing sugar, then roll out the marzipan until big enough to cover the cake (use string to help you measure). Carefully lift the marzipan onto the cake, pat down to cover smoothly and trim any excess off the bottom.

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Powdered Sugar

Marzipan

Roll

Jam

Brush all over again with more jam.

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Jam

Knead 1kg white icing until smooth, then roll out on an icing sugar-dusted surface until a little bigger than the marzipan size. Carefully lift onto the cake, partially pat down the sides to smooth and stick, allow the rest to stick in folds, or tease into shape with your fingers (step A). Trim any ragged edges.

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Powdered Sugar

Marzipan

Icing

Roll

For the robins, roll 3 walnut-size balls from some of the remaining white icing. Halve the icing that is left. Knead brown colouring into 1 half to give a rich colour, wrap well this will be the branch. Divide the other half into 3 pieces, and colour 1 red, 1 pale brown and 1 green.

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Walnuts

Icing

Roll

Wrap

Re-dust the work surface, pinch off 3 marble-size balls of red icing and roll each into a teardrop shape for the breast. Use a cocktail stick to add texture, then stick 1 onto each robin brush a little water onto the icing to help it stick. As you stick it, flatten the base of the ball slightly so that the robins stand up.

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Cocktail

Icing

Water

Base

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Cocktail Sticks

Divide the pale brown icing into 3 balls and roll each into an oval shape, then pinch 1 end of each into a gentle point (step B). Stick onto the robins so that the point is the head, and trim the tail if you need to. Poke a clove into each brown tip to make a little beak. Pull the round bit off the end of 6 cloves to leave spiky ends, and poke into robins to make feet. Use black writing icing to add eyes (step C).

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Writing Icing

Clove

Icing

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Roll most of the dark brown icing into a long branch and attach to the cake with a little more water or jam.

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Icing

Water

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Jam

Roll smaller branches from the remaining dark brown icing. Pinch leaves from the green icing and attach.

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Icing

Roll

Add the robins and enjoy.

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Cocktail Sticks

Ingredients

Servings:

x 20cm round or 18cm square Christmas cake (see 'Goes well with', below)4Tbsps

raspberry or apricot jam, warmed and sieved 500grams

pack marzipan 1kgs

ready-to-roll white icing 1serving

brown, green and red food colouring 9

whole cloves 1serving

black writing icing

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cake can be paired with Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. You could try NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry. Reviewers quite like it with a 5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 19 dollars per bottle.