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READY ROLL ICING

Christmas Cake with Ready Roll Icing
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Christmas Cake with Ready Roll Icing

Ready Roll icing is a quick and easy way to ice a Christmas Cake or any other cake for that matter. You end up with a really flat surface without all the fiddle of using traditional icing.

Our step by step pictures and instructions make it all easy.

INGREDIENTS

The ingredients below will make enough to ice a 25cm (10 inch) Christmas Cake.

Pack of Ready to Roll Icing - enough for a 25cm (10 inch) cake

2 tablespoons icing sugar

PREPARATION TIME: 30 minutes
 
COOKING TIME: None
 
DIFFICULTY: Medium
 
FREEZE: No
 
SERVINGS: One 25cm / 10in cake
 
EQUIPMENT: Rolling pin

PREPARATION

Previously you need to have made and baked the Christmas cake and covered it in marzipan.

It's ideal if you ice your cake when the marzipan has had about two weeks to fully harden. Having advised that, we have marzipaned and iced a cake on the same day. I know because I'm looking at two cakes right now!

This page takes you through icing a Christmas Cake with Ready Roll Icing. Click on a line below to go to any of the other pages in this series about Christmas Cakes.

How To Make and Bake a Christmas Cake

How To Marzipan a Christmas Cake

How To Ice Your Christmas Cake with Ready-To-Roll Icing

How To Ice Your Christmas Cake The Traditional Method

A Recipe That Your Children Can Cook

ADVICE FOR READY ROLL ICING

There are advantages and disadvantages to using ready roll icing compared to icing a cake in the traditional way.
  1.   Using ready roll icing is quicker and requires far less skill.
     
  2.  A flat surface is the only option with ready roll icing. The surface of traditional icing can be textured.
     
  3.  If there are any lumps / bumps in the surface of the marzipan, these will be visible on the surface of ready roll icing. With traditional icing lumps / bumps will be hidden.
     
  4.  Ready roll icing is slighly more expemsive compared to traditional icing.

RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS

Read the instructions on the Ready To Roll Icing packet and follow those in conjunction with our instructions below.

STEP 1

Remove the icing from the pack and knead it with your hands for 5 minutes. This will make it much easier to shape correctly.

Kneeding ready roll icing
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Kneeding ready roll icing

Shape the icing to a ball shape so that you can roll it out into a circle easier.

Roll icing into a ball shape
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Roll icing into a ball shape

STEP 2

Brush the surface, including the sides, of the 'marzipaned' cake with water. This helps the icing stick firmly to the cake.

Dust the work surface with icing sugar and roll out the ball of icing to a circle which is just a bit larger then the Christmas cake. The icing should be roughly 3/4 cm (1/4 inch) thick.

Brushing marzipan with water
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Brushing marzipan with water

STEP 3

Lift up the rolled out icing with both hands and place it on the cake.

Transfer ready roll icing to cake
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Transfer ready roll icing to cake

Firm down the top and then the sides to give a smooth surface.

Firn down ready roll icing onto cake
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Firn down ready roll icing onto cake

STEP 3

Trim off any excess icing round the base of the cake and firm the the icing around the cake.

Trinning off excess ready roll icing
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Trinning off excess ready roll icing

It really is that easy!

Firm ready roll icing down again
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Firm ready roll icing down again

The decoration of the cake is only limited by your imagination. In our example we have gone for the traditional look.

Remember also that most Ready to Roll Icing can take normal icing on top. So it's quite feasible to decorate the cake with different coloured icing patterns.

Decorated christmas cake
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Decorated christmas cake

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