Rout Cakes in the Form of Carrots

Ingredients

• Paste (as per recipe No. 272)
• Red royal icing
• Green angelica
• Thread
• Wooden skewers

Directions

1. Prepare the paste as in recipe No. 272.

2. Divide the paste into small pieces the size of a walnut.

3. Roll each piece into the shape of small spring carrots.

4. Insert a small toothpick-like splinter into the thick end of each carrot.

5. Tie a loop of thread to the splinter and suspend them on a wire secured to two iron skewers stuck into a board.

6. Let them dry in a screen until the next day.

7. Place the dried carrots on a baking plate and bake them.

8. Dip the baked carrots in red royal icing and suspend them again to dry.

9. Remove the wooden skewers and insert a piece of green angelica, using royal icing to secure it.