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Party Ring 4

by Nicola Ghering 8 photos Rated 87% 308 votes when voting closed

Ingredients on a kitchen worktop: bag of plain flour, caster sugar, margarine tub and six eggs

What do you need?
2 giggly females
400g plain flour
100g caster sugar
180g margarine
2 egg yolks
lots of Icing sugar
Food colouring x 2

Flour, sugar and egg yolk being beaten with a spatula in a large glass mixing bowl

Mix the sugar and margarine until your arm aches (not long for inexperienced cooks!!). Then fold in the flour (technical term for mixing) and the egg yolks.

Two pairs of hands kneading pale biscuit dough on a floured chopping board

Turn out on a flour suface (very sticky, feels like play dough) and kneed (technical term for mixing on a flat surface).

Roll out carefully (use your hands and guestimate a rough circle), then cheat and use a round object (or chocolate tin lid, which needed to be eaten first!!!) to make sure it is correct.

Knife scoring diagonal lines across the raw dough ring on a parchment-lined baking tray

Carefully mark out the underside (bottom) of the party ring, measuring exactly the gap between each line (.23 mm)!!! We used a knife handle, but you could also drag your finger across to make these lines, suggest you wash your hands first! Oh yes, then cook for 35 mins at gas mark 4.

Red and yellow food colouring held over a jug of pink icing and a bowl of yellow

Mix the icing, 2 colours needed, taste many times to check the texture.

Baked biscuit ring cooling on the hob with an ordinary party ring sat in its hole for scale

Wow, the underside (bottom) looks great, Delia mark 2 and 3, here we come.

Pink icing being spread over the baked ring with a long palette knife

Smear lots of icing on the top and smooth with a wet hot palate knife, (or tongue if no knife near, unless of course you have already been sick from eating too much icing),

The finished giant party ring, pink iced with yellow zigzags, beside a normal-sized one

The best yet, or so we think, it tastes great, looks stunning, orders taken!

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