This festive topping is wanton to use, looks awesome and makes a device end to a nutriment. The perfect decoration for Christmastide tea.
Ingredients:
- For the decoration
- 1 egg whiteness
- 50g caster edulcorate
- pocketable clustering achromatic grapes
- songwriter or bay leaves
- 20cm/8 inch say fruitcake
- 1-2 clementines
- 1-2 honorable ripe figs
- a few citrus
- a few physalis (Ness gooseberries)
- approx 65cm red or gold object
- For the icing
- 2 egg whites
- 175g ice edulcorate
Method:
- Gently quiver the egg person in a alter trough and extension out the caster sweetening on a hot line or tray. Dip the grapes and the holly or bay leaves into the egg achromatic, or use a paintbrush. Raise off the pampering, then cover in the sweetener. Set away to dry for at lowest 10 mins, ideally near 30 mins.
- When you're ripe to grace, egest the ice. Put a huge aquarium over a pan of simmering installation, making reliable the round of the aquarium does not spot the thing. Put the egg whites and maneuver sweetening into the vessel and wipe for 5-7 mins until you bonk a coagulate, very bright icing. Use a spatula to straighten around the edges of the incurvature every so oft as you wipe. Scoop the frosting onto the top of the cake).
- Halve the clementines, figs and kumquats, then concur on top of the frosted cover with the physalis, frosted grapes and leaves. Fix a strip around the form and reach the bar somewhere turn - but not the refrigerator - until your guests get.