GENOESE FANCIES

Ingredients:
Self raising flour - 75 gms
Castor sugar - 75 gms
Vanilla essence - few drops
Butter - 25 gms
Eggs - 3
Apricot jam - 4 tbsp
Water - 2 tbsp

For Decoration:
Icing sugar - 200 gms
Water - 2 tbsp
Cocoa - 1 tsp
Pink food colour
Coloured cake decorations

Method:

• Whisk the eggs and sugar together over a basin of hot water until the mixture leaves a trail from the whisk.
• Fold in the sieved flour and add vanilla essence.
• Slightly melt the butter and fold in gently. 
• Pour the mixture into a well greased swiss roll tin, and bake in a moderately hot oven for 30 minutes.
• Turn out and cool on a wire tray.
• Sieve the icing sugar well and divide into three. Sieve the cocoa into one and add the pink colouring to another.
• Add water to all three gradually and beat each to a coating consistency.
• Cut the cake into shapes with biscuit cutters or with a sharp knife.
• Heat the jam with the water for the glaze and sieve.
• Brush each shape with glaze on a wire tray.
• Spoon the icing over each individually varying the colours.
• Decorate as liked.