Si Lankan style wedding cake pieces

Srilankan Style wedding cake pieces 

It is very common in Sri Lanka that they always chose to give their guests an amazingly baked Christmas cake with added definition at the wedding. 

 

to make this cake pieces first you need to bake a Christmas cake.

How to make a christmas cake?

 well first of all below are the ingredients you need for the Christmas cake:

                     

for the fruit mixture:  

• preserved chow chow fruit         325g
• preserved candid peel                 325g
• fresh cherries                              325g
• fried or dried cashews                625g
• raisins                                         875g
• black current                              325g
• sultana                                        325g 
• preserved ginger                         325g
• preserved pumpkin                     875g
• lemon peel                                  5tsp
• rose essence                                5tsp
• almond essence                           5tsp
• golden syrup                                5tbsp
• strawberry jam                            10tbsp
• brandy                                         10tbsp
• bee honey                                   10tbsp
• vanilla                                         5tsbsp
• fragrance powder                        5tsp 

   And for the cake: 

                                       

• semolina                                     625g
• egg yolk                                      25
• egg white                                    15
• vanilla                                         5tsp
• brown sugar                                875g
• butter                                          625g

And the icing they use to cover the cake is marzipan icing. For that you will need below ingredients:

egg whites                  1

cashew powder           80g

icing sugar                  200g

rose essence                2 drops

almond essence           2 drops

1. first you need to mix the fruits and the other ingredients under the fruit mixture list and keep it in an air tight container for about 10 days.  
2. On the day you are supposed to make the cake you need to beat the egg whites until it gives stiff soft peeks.
3.  While beating the egg whites you need to add a half of the sugar.
4.  Then beat the butter with the remaining sugar until soft and fluffy
5.  Gradually add one egg yolk at a time for the butter sugar mixture and beat well until well combined Add semolina to the butter mixture and mix well.
6. Finally add the egg white to the yolk , semolina and butter mixture and fold .

you can now bake this batter under  180 Celsius degrees for about hour..

The baking time may differ from oven to oven so make sure you do the tooth pick test before turning off the oven. 

There are two ways to complete this caking.

the very first way is,

When the baking is done, you can make the marzipan icing and roll it over the cake and serve or you can cut into equal size pieces 

how to make marzipan icing

And you can also crumble the baked cake and in a square cake pan you can thin it down pushing thoroughly  to 1 inch height or less and then you can roll the marzipan icing on top.

If you feel that the icing is not sticking to the cake you can apply  some honey on top of the cake and then add the icing.