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 Post subject: The Grooms Cake!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:57 pm 
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http://www.oprah.com/food/Chocolate-Biscuit-Cake-Recipe


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 Post subject: Re: The Grooms Cake!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:17 pm 
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Looks like the British version of the American Icebox Cake ... only bicuits/chocolate are inverted.

Not that I look down on that; Kris made me Icebox Cake for my 39th birthday, and it was wonderful.

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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2011 10:06 am 
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I'd eat it! :D

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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 12:00 pm 
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That actually looks good to me.

It's interesting that they use fruitcakes as wedding cakes in Britian - I had not known that before the wedding. I'd like to see a photo of the inside of one of those fruitcake wedding cakes.

Is it like "our" fruitcake??


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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 12:30 pm 
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easy bake wrote:
Is it like "our" fruitcake??

Absolutely nothing like ours. I took a class from a British wedding cake designer and tasted their fruitcake. It's really excellent. Not for everyone, but very, very good. The fruits macerate for at least a year, and the cakes age for a long time. My guess is the royal family got the cake started quite a while back.

I'm not surprised they chose a fruitcake...it's absolutely traditional.

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PostPosted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:15 pm 
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There seems to be a discrepancy in the recipes. I found this at another site.

A royal wedding cake made of biscuits? Really? Yes indeed, broken up (Tee Biscuis) and mixed with dark chocolate, condensed milk, a bit of butter, some nuts, raisins and some optional glace cherries and then bunged in the freezer rather than baked in the oven.


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