Shooting star celebration cake

Name: Shooting star celebration cake
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 kg ready-to-roll icing; 1 serving 20cm round cake with marzipan (see Goes Well With); 1 serving gold edible lustre (we used Squires Kitchen); 1 serving red food colouring paste, we used Christmas red; 1 egg white

Shooting star celebration cake is a Mediterranean recipe that serves 12. One serving contains 350 calories, 0g of protein, and 14g of fat. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours. A mixture of ready-to-roll icing, cm round cake, gold edible lustre, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly diet. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Star-Studded Celebration Cupcakes, Shooting the Breeze, and Celebration Cake.

Instructions

Knead 700g of the icing until smooth. Dust work surface with icing sugar, then roll icing into a circle 5mm thick and 40cm wide.

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Powdered Sugar

Icing

Roll

Brush cake with cool, boiled water.

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Water

Roll icing over the rolling pin, then place onto the marzipan, smoothing any folds.

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Marzipan

Icing

Roll

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Cut away any excess, then use a glass to smooth sides of the cake.

Knead the trimmings with the remaining 300g icing and roll out to 5mm thick. Using an 8cm star cutter, cut one large star.

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Icing

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Roll the rest of the icing a little thinner, then cut out 20 stars with a small cutter. Lift stars onto greaseproof paper and leave overnight. Once dry, mix some of the gold lustre with a drop of water then paint the large star and half the small stars gold. Leave to dry for 30 mins.

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Icing

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Squash trimmings together and colour with the red colouring paste. For the stars tail, shape half the icing into a rectangle and roll out to a long strip about 3mm thick.

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Squash

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Cut a length, 40cm long and 10cm wide at one end, tapering to about 5cm wide.

Cut a V in the wide end (see picture, below left). Cover with cling film, then roll the rest of the icing into a 20cm circle.

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Icing

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Cut a scroll shape, ensuring one end is the same width as the thinner end of the first piece.

Brush the sides of the cake with water, then wrap the tail around. Lift the scrollshaped piece onto the cake, dampening underneath so it sticks, and join the scroll and tail ends together.

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Water

Wrap

Brush away excess icing sugar with a damp brush and leave to dry.

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Powdered Sugar

Roll a walnut-size ball of icing and put on top of the cake where the tail ends.

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Walnuts

Icing

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Beat the egg white with the icing sugar to make a smooth paste. Spoon into an icing bag fitted with a fine writing nozzle. Use this to stick the large star onto the ball of icing and the small stars to the tail, and to pipe graduated dots to decorate. Leave to dry.

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Egg Whites

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Servings:

1kg

ready-to-roll icing 1serving

20cm round cake with marzipan (see 'Goes Well With')1serving

gold edible lustre (we used Squires Kitchen)1serving

red food colouring paste, we used Christmas red 1

egg white

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cake works really well 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. One wine you could try is NV Solera Cream Sherry. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 17 dollars.