Icing a Christmas cake

Today I decided that it was time to get on with finishing the Christmas cake and get some icing on it.  I wanted to do the icing so Sophie could join in too as she was involved with the boozy fruit and helped make the Christmas cake 

So a nice simple icing is a peaked style so she could splat to her hearts content.  First we needed to stick the marzipan on top, and of course my little chef got on and rolled out the marzipan.

then after picking several little holes out of the cake all for quality control of course, mummy stuck some hot apricot jam on the cake before the marzipan covered the top and the mini picked holes.  Just for good measure the cake had to be patted to make sure it was well and truly stuck.

Mummy whisked up the the recipe for the icing which was

500g of caster sugar

1 tbsp liquid glucose

125ml of water  

2 egg whites

50 g icing sugar

the sugar, glucose and water was put in a pan and heated till the sugar melted and went clear, mean while i whisked up 2 egg whites in my k mix and when the syrup was ready i added this to the egg whites in a steady stream and left to whisk at a high level for a good 5 mins till the icing was like a thick spreadable paste.  finally the icing sugar was added and whisked some more till the icing was thick and peaky.  

Sophie got to work again spreading the icing all over the cake and did a rather good job at trying to make it go every where, including in her mouth.