Fondant fancies

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Try these gorgeous little sponge cakes covered in icing and flavoured with lemon curd and strawberry jam. Our Fondant Fancies recipe is perfect for tea parties as they are small enough to have room for sandwiches and scones! They look brilliant on a cake stand too.

Buy ready-made daisies, or use a daisy cutter with fondant, to decorate these pretty fondant fancies

Delicate delights perfect for afternoon tea

Bake homemade fondant fancies with our easy recipe. Madeira cake cubes are filled with buttercream and jam and topped with pastel pink icing and white stripes. For more cakes and bakes to share over a cuppa, take a look through our teatime traybake recipes.

Fondant fancies are light square sponges covered in buttercream, then encased in and decorated with fondant. The fluffy sponge is made with almond paste, lemon zest and French meringue. The key to perfect fondant fancies? They must be perfectly square, perfectly identical and have a smooth, flawless finish. Fondant fancies were the technical challenge for dessert week on The Great Canadian Baking Show.

When you see these encased in their frilly cases lined up together in a Mr Kipling box, you know it's a special occasion - or you are celebrating a birthday of someone over 50 or under 5. Homemade versions are even nicer. With a beautifully light vanilla sponge, thick glossy icing and hidden button

Homemade fondant icing for dipping and making fondant fancies or French fancies; baking author Sarah Trivuncic's top 10 tips to get a professional finish.

Victoria's Kitchen Cake School’s Instagram photo: “🍑 FONDANT FANCIES 🍑 Such a lovely day with my students, and they produced gorgeous work! See Stories for more pics 📸 One lady even…”

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