Orange Berry Wedding Cake

What you will need

50g butter, melted and cooled, plus extra for greasing Butter butt-err Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…

8 eggs Egg egg The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…

200g caster sugar

100g ground almond

zest 2 orange Orange or-ange One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…

200g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder Baking powder bay-king pow-dah Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…

25g butter, melted and cooled Butter butt-err Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…

4 egg Egg egg The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…

100g caster sugar

50g ground almond

zest 1 orange Orange or-ange One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…

100g plain flour

½ tsp baking powder Baking powder bay-king pow-dah Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…

1 quantity orange sugar syrup (see below for recipe)

800g fresh raspberry Raspberry ras-beh-ree A member of the rose family, raspberries have a wonderfully intense, sweet taste, and many…

22cm and a 32cm cake board

200ml raspberry coulis

1 quantity Crème patisserie (see below for recipe)

400g redcurrant Redcurrant red-cur-rant These shiny little berries grow low on bushes, hanging from the branches like rows of miniature…

1 egg white

4 tbsp caster sugar

1.8kg chocolate modelling paste (recipe below) Chocolate chok-let Chocolate as we know it in pressed…

6 plastic dowelling rods

800g small strawberry Strawberry straw-bare-ee Once available in Britain for just a brief period during the summer, strawberries are now a year…

200g blueberry Blueberry bloo-bear-ee Blueberries are one of the few edibles native to North America and credited with being…

icing sugar, for dusting

4 tbsp caster sugar

6 tbsp water

2 strips orange peel

4 tbsp Cointreau

6 egg yolks

3 tsp vanilla extract

140g caster sugar

50g plain flour

600ml milk Milk mill-k One of the most widely used ingredients, milk is often referred to as a complete food. While cow…

25g butter Butter butt-err Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…

142ml pot double cream

500g tub crème fraîche

1¼kg plain chocolate, broken up

700g liquid glucose (available from some supermarkets and most chemists)