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 can make these different sizes if you like. These make the tiers to your cake, so stack them up. 3. Cut out some shapes from the other fruit. These could be stars, flowers, anything you like!

Soaking the fruit overnight is crucial allowing the the fruit to plump up and contributing to the overall success of the cake. Method Line a 2lb /900h loaf tin with baking parchment.