Friday, April 3, 2009

Fondant Apple Walnut Cake


Fondant Apple Walnut Cake


Ingredients:
4 to 5 pc big apples, peeled cored and cubed
2 3/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups butter
3 pc eggs
2 1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsps. Nutmeg
1/4 tsps all-spice
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cups raisins

Procedure
1 Grease and line with paper a 9” round baking pan.
2 soak raisins in hot water until soft then drain
3 prepare the apples and mix this is 3/4 cup sugar
4 Melt the butter, add the sugar and eggs.
5 Sift together all the dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture
6 Fold in the apples, nuts and raisins
7 Bake at 350F for 1 ½ hours or until cake tester comes out clean.
8 Cool completely

Fondant and Decorations
1 pack Wilton Ready Made Fondant
1 pack Wilton Ready Made Gumpaste
Wilton food color - red, green, yellow
coated floral wires
almond extract

Procedure
1 Cover the cake with Royal Icing. Set aside.
2 Knead the Wilton ready made fondant until soft and add the color
3 Roll the fondant and cover the cake. Dust table with Cornstarch to prevent it from sticking.
4 Roll the remaining fondant and make decorations

procedure for gumpaste hollies
1 Knead gumpaste until soft and smooth
2 Color the gumpaste with Green and Red food color
3 Roll out the green and use a leaf cutter. Set this on a wire until dry
4 make mini beads with red gumpaste. Insert a wire in each and let this dry
5 Assemble Holly Leaves


Home made gumpaste
Royal Icing – 420 grams powdered sugar, 1/3 cup eggwhites, 1 tsp cream of tartar – beat until stiff

Wilton Royal Icing – 420 grams powdered sugar, 3 tbsp Wilton Meringue Powder, 6 to 8 Tbsp water. – beat until stiff. With this recipe – your left over royal icing can be covered and stored in the refrigerator for a week.

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