Log Icings

Ingredients

• a few pounds of blanched almonds
• red food coloring
• yellow food coloring
• green food coloring
• the same amount of desiccated coconut
• fondant (red, yellow, orange, and chocolate)
• ½ pound of chocolate
• simple syrup

Directions

1. Chop the blanched almonds and sieve them, discarding the siftings.

2. Divide the almonds into three equal parts. Color one part red, one part yellow, and one part green, spreading them out on paper to dry.

3. Sieve and color the desiccated coconut red, yellow, and green.

4. Color and flavor the fondant in red, yellow, orange, and chocolate.

5. Take ½ pound of chocolate and form it into a roll.

6. Take double the amount of yellow fondant and form it into a sheet around the chocolate roll.

7. Wrap a green sheet around this and roll it into a strip one inch in diameter, cutting into pieces about twelve inches long.

8. Lay the pieces on a tray to harden slightly.

9. Once firm, pour simple syrup on a slab and roll a strip in the syrup, then in the colored nuts.

10. Cut the strips diagonally into pieces about one inch long.

11. Repeat with all the cream, forming rolls and combining colors as desired, rolling in different colored nuts.

12. Optionally, roll some strips in melted chocolate and then in nuts.