Fruit cake

[food_techie]

Can you offer some advice on whether you can use fondant icing / sugarpaste directly onto a fruit cake? Or do you have to have a marzipan coating first? Also, if sugarpaste is able to be by itself on top of a fruit cake, what do you use to make sure it sticks? I use jam, but I think maybe there might be something that has less leakage through thinned out sugarpate???

[woofgang]

If you are going to use the cake really quickly and if the icing is a dark colour then there is no need to use marzipan. The reason for using it is to stop the colour of thew cake staining the icing. I believe that rolled icing only need to be brushed with water to make ir stick to the cake and itself, but it should tell you on the packet if you are buying ready made

[food_techie]

Thanks woofgang. I'll see how I go without marzipan and I'll try using water instead of jam.