Mary wrote:
> WHY are you even considering frosting a fruit cake ?????
>
> Bertie Doe wrote:
>> In a rare joint venture, Team Doe are doing an iced cake. My wife is going
>> to make the fruit cake and I'll be decorating it. My dilema, the 2 recipes I
>> have : Royal Icing (sug+egg whites) and : Butter Icing (sug+butter) recipe
>> states "Will store up to 3 days in container in fridge".
>> I really need an icing which will store up to 3 weeks, any ideas for soft or
>> hard icing?
>> My wife dosen't like ground almonds, so this rules out marzipan as an
>> underlayer. IIRC there's a paste called Kersh or Kirsh (no luck with google)
>> is this paste almond free? Is there a good recipe out there on the sub
>> ether? TIA.
>>
>> Bertie
>

Is it a Christmass cake?
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