Rose pink iced fairy cakes seemed just the thing for our Persephone tea for Ruby Ferguson's Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary
Dovegreyreader will tell you all about the book while I serve these pretty confections - I used Nigella's recipe and a light hand with the food colouring, though it occurred to me after I'd made them that I should have put rose water in the icing; (that omission hasn't stopped Mr. C. eating four at one sitting, however).
Early in the story the young Lady Rose wants to reward her pony with an apple and some sugar,
"So a footman brought a silver salver with a rosy apple on a pink plate, and a silver fruit knife, and a small bowl of sugar, and Rose fed the pony, with little cries of joy".
I think I had that image in mind when I was deciding what to make to go with this lovely book, which is set in and near Edinburgh, by the way - the grand but fictitious Keepsfield being based possibly on Hopetoun.
