Additional Ingredients

For the decoration:

	cornflour
450 grams	sugar paste, Pink
2 tbsp	Apricot Jam warmed
500 grams	Ready Rolled White Icing (Silver Spoon Create)

Further Additional Ingredients

For the ribbon and bow:

	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon Homegrown)
250 grams	White Marzipan
	pink paste food colouring

How to make Marzipan Ribbon Cake

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1. For the cake: heat the oven to 170°C,325°F, gas 3. Line the base and sides of a 20cm/8" square cake tin with non-stick baking paper.
2. Sift the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add the almonds, sugar, butter and eggs and beat well with an electric whisk or wooden spoon until smooth.
3. Spoon into the tin and bake for 35-45 minutes, until well risen and firm to the touch. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then place on a wire rack to become cold.
4. Trim the crisp edges from the cake. Slice off the raised top of the cake to leave a perfectly flat square.
5. Cut the cake into 4 squares. Spread 3 squares with the jam and sandwich the layers together.
6. For the decoration: Colour the Ready to Roll icing and the marzipan with pink food colouring .Lightly dust a surface with cornflour and roll out the Ready to Roll icing to a square large enough to cover the cake.
7. Brush the cake all over with apricot jam and carefully position the Ready to Roll icing on the cake. Press the top and sides, smoothing the Ready to Roll icing with your hands, until the cake is covered and there are no air bubbles. Trim any excess Ready to Roll icing from the base of the cake.
8. For the bow and ribbon: Roll out the marzipan on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar. Cut 2 strips of marzipan to fit crosswise on the cake. Brush them very lightly with a little water and attach to the cake.
9. For the bow: Form 2 loops from some of the remaining marzipan and attach to the centre of the cake with a little water. Attach a small strip in the centre of the loops to form the bow.
10. Cut 2 more strips of marzipan, one shorter than the other to form the rest of the bow and attach just underneath the bow with a little water.
11. Roll pieces of the remaining marzipan into tiny balls and attach to the ribbon strips with a dab of water.

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