Cake Weekend

This is the weekend of making the wedding cake. 3 tiers of fruit cake from a family recipe with the help of Mrs. Smith for the quantities and cooking times for the big cakes.

Some of the ingredients.

Adding the egg to the butter cream with flour to stop it curdling.

Cake tins prepared with butter and greaseproof paper, then brown paper outside and on top to prevent burning. The largest cake takes 5 1/2 hrs to cook.

Mixture in the tin and almost ready to go.

Brown paper covering and it's in the oven!

Two down and one to go. Wrapped up in greaseproof paper, I feed them with a tablespoon of Brandy each week until they go for icing.