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Tennis cake

A fruit cake from the early 1900s that is made with marzipan and fondant and decorated like a tennis court to celebrate the then new sport of lawn tennis

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Tennis cake recipe - BBC Food

Mary’s light fruit cake is covered with marzipan and fondant icing to look like a tennis court, but you can easily adapt it to your sport of choice. A great birthday cake for sports fans! You will need a deep 23x15cm/9x6in rectangular cake tin and...
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Mary Berry’s Tennis Cake - The Great British Bake Off | The Great British Bake Off

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Tennis Cake, 1920s – Part 2 | The Cake Historian

This recipe was fairly straightforward but like all old recipes needed some careful thinking before starting. Firstly I ignored the need for ‘patent flour’ which is high quality flour. …...

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