After a tough competition, Kelly Douglass's amazing street party cake was voted the winner of our Royal Wedding baking comp - see how to make one yourself with this easy recipe.
Ingredients
- 225g caster sugar
- 225g butter
- 225g self-raising flour
- 4 eggs
- A few drops of vanilla essence
- Royal icing to decorate
WEIGHT CONVERTER
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4).
- Cream butter and sugar together, in a large bowl, until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well. Then add the flour and vanilla essence and combine with a metal spoon.
- Pour mixture into 2 lined sandwich tins and bake for 15-20 mins until golden brown and springy to touch. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 mins before removing and cooling on a wire rack.
- To decorate: Start by icing a cake board with grey royal icing and imprinting it with a silicone cobble stamp.
- Cover the cake with a thick piece white Royal icing, smooth and place it in the middle of the board. Cover that layer with a thinner layer of Royal icing for the tablecloth, and create the tablecloth edges using a border stencil. The table is balanced on 6 cake columns.
- Run a length of red, white and blue ribbon around the edge of the 'table' and pin to the cake.
- Craft the food and drink items from Royal icing in different colours, keeping everything to the same scale. It is quite fiddly so allow plenty of time. Let your imagination run wild - remember when you played with Fimo and plasticine as a kid? Kelly made mini versions of her children's favourite tea party treats - including cupcakes, swiss rolls and a Victoria sponge. What are your family's favourites?
- To make the frame, place four wooden meat skewers at the edges of the grey icing. Tie some minature lights, available from craft shops, between the poles to make minature 'fairy lights'.
Top Tip for making Kelly Douglass’s Royal Wedding street party cake
Check out the runner-ups and the other entries for our Royal Wedding baking comp
Trusted, informative, and empathetic – GoodToKnow is the ultimate online destination for mums. Established in 2007, our 15-year-strong archive of content includes more than 18,000 articles, 1,500 how-to videos, and 7,000 recipes.
-
Orange polenta and olive oil cake
This orange polenta and olive oil cake has just a handful of ingredients and will taste even better if you can bake it a couple of days ahead.
By Rose Fooks Published
-
Maltesers shortbread
Our Maltesers shortbread takes just 20 minutes to bake and use only five ingredients
By Rose Fooks Published
-
Fruit crumble tray bake
Our fruit crumble tray bake is somewhere between a teatime treat and a pudding...
By Jess Meyer Published
-
Stuffed lamb shoulder with feta and apricot
Our stuffed lamb shoulder with feta and apricot is infused with lots of Middle Eastern flavours and it only takes 30 minutes of prep
By Rose Fooks Published
-
Stuffed spring leg of lamb with herby chutney
This stuffed spring leg of lamb with herby chutney is best made the night before so it can marinate and intensify in flavour.
By Jules Mercer Published
-
Easter coconut and lemon cake
This Easter coconut and lemon cake serves 12 and leftovers will keep in the fridge for up to three days.
By Jules Mercer Published
-
4 ingredients and 15 minutes to make this classic British dessert in your air fryer
You can make bread and butter pudding in an air fryer using just four basic store cupboard ingredients, thanks to one TikTok influencer's recipe.
By Ellie Hutchings Published
-
Your favourite TV show could influence your teen's future career: The Great British Bake Off and Grey's Anatomy are among the series inspiring 60% of teenagers
The 10 most inspiring TV shows for teenagers have been revealed, and you could use your telly time to strike up a career talk too.
By Ellie Hutchings Published
-
Great British Bake Off contestants 2023: The line-up confirmed ahead of Series 14
Here's who's going head-to-head in the bakers tent
By Selina Maycock Published