Poinsettias are a traditional
Christmas flower popular in festive films etc. and the only reason this cake
has the name that it does is because it is iced with poinsettia shaped things
on top. Well it’s supposed to… mine didn’t really but on to that later.
The sponge itself has no flour and
the flour is replaced by ground hazelnuts and almonds. The other ingredients it
contains apart from sugar, butter, egg etc. are cinnamon and other spices,
which also add to the festive theme of the cake.
During the making of the
cake there was a bit of drama as my brother was trying to assist me in the most
unhelpful way possible as there was little time so in the end I screamed at
him. He had thrown in more ground nuts which turned out to be what the cake
needed but I didn’t know how much he had added, or how much we needed, or how
much was already in there.
It was nuts (pun
intended).
Anyway I then had to make
the butter cream which for some bizarre and unknown reason to me contained
custard and as hard as I tried it didn’t want to be butter cream consistency.
So I tried again. Still no luck. So I filled the cake with apricot jam which I
had to cover the cake anyway for the icing to stick to.
Back to the icing. The
poinsettias with the aid of my friend ended up looking like sea creatures but I
refuse to take full responsibility for that as my friend did contribute a lot to
it. Anyway you can make up your own
minds.
Next Recipe: Saratoga Torte
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