A Cake to aid the Iraqi and Syrian Christians

My parish raised £19 026.48 to aid the Christians of Iraq and Syria - Thanks be to God!

Cake Auction – In aid of the Christians of Iraq and Syria – Ealing Abbey’s Lenten Appeal 2015

This cake was auctioned at Ealing Abbey, Church of St Benedict, Charlbury Grove, London W5 2DY, on the third Sunday of Easter, 19th April 2015, to aid the Christians from Iraq and Syria who have been chased out of their countries and are living in very desperate conditions and raised over £300. 

The auctioned cake was made from two 10 inch [25 cm] round marmorkuchen, sandwiched together with real dark chocolate ganache.  The marmorkuchen was drizzled with a delicious coffee liqueur.  

The cake was then covered first with homemade marzipan, which had in excess of 36 percent real almonds, with NO eggs added, and then covered with fondant icing. To glue the marzipan to the cake, a thin layer of Swiss chocolate meringue butter cream was spreaded on the cake.

The cake was 4 inches [10 cm] tall and has a weight of 9 lbs 4.5 ozs [4.195 kg] and it had taken four days to make the flowers, to bake and decorate the cake.

Marmorkuchen is a German word for chocolate marbled cake.  A German man, Kai Beermann says the cake tastes better than any marmorkuchen he has eaten in Germany.  Owen’s grandmother says that this is the finest cake she has eaten.  Another customer Gini wonders what the secret of making such fine cake is.

The cake auction was part of a cake sale which raised over £1566.  The whole parish Lent and Easter appeal raised £19 026.48 for the suffering Christians of Iraq and Syria.  May God be blessed indeed!