Ornamental Icing
Ingredients
Directions
Cut out pieces of cake in various sizes and set aside.
Cover the whole cake with red or colored jelly using a spatula.
Place the cut pieces on the jelly in their respective positions.
Pipe and decorate the cake as desired, adding flowers or leaves on top.
Alternatively, cut the base from a solid piece of cake, fill with cream, and cover with a thin piece of cake.
Pipe cream in a pyramid shape on top and secure with icing.
Cover the whole with jelly or leave plain, then decorate.
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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