Fruit cake - Marzipan fruit wedding cake

Fruit cake - Marzipan fruit wedding cake

This marzipan fruit cake consists in fruit cake covered with a layer of brown marzipan. Like most fruit cakes this mixed fruit cake design appears frequently at weddings.

The marzipan fruits used to create this cake are marzipan pears, oranges, lemons, plums, apples, apricots, and figs. A few marzipan leaves were added at the base of the fruits to merge together the brown base with the rest of the fruits.

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This marzipan pear started off as plain white marzipan, a light green tint of paste food coloring was added to the paste which was than kneaded to distribute the color evenly and than modelled from a sphere to a cone into a pear shape. A chestnut brown color was sprayed onto the marzipan pear through an airbrush to give the shape a more natural look. To make the marzipan pear appear more realistic another layer of the same color brown was sprayed again, this time to create a droplet texture effect and to emphasize the contours.

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The marzipan pear was then hand painted with confectioners varnish to give it a high gloss finish. To add a final touch a clove was placed on top of the pear as a stem. All the other marzipan fruit shapes were created the same way.