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Ornamental Icing

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Ornamental Icing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cake by leaving it as it comes from the mold or cut into desired shapes.

  2. Create a hole in the cake and fill it with cream.

  3. Add a thin piece of cake on top and secure it.

  4. Cover the entire cake with red or colored jelly using a pallet knife.

  5. Place decorative pieces on the jelly to hold them in place.

  6. Pipe and ornament the cake as desired, finishing with flowers or leaves on top.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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