Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Balloons Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round cake

• 15g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• red, blue, green and yellow food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 25cm round cake board

• 2 small greaseproof paper piping bags

• No 2 plain and No 7 star nozzles

• 1.5m blue ribbon

• 3 candles and hodlers

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Place on the cake board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan then sugar-paste  icing.

2. Divide the remaining sugar-paste  icing into three pieces and tint pink, blue and green. Make a balloon template, roll out the colored sugar-paste  and cut out one balloon from each color. Stick on to the cake with water and rub the edges gently to round them off.

3. Tint the royal icing yellow. With a plain nozzle, pipe on the balloon strings and a number on each balloon. Using the star nozzle, pipe a border around the base of the cake.

4. Tie the ribbon round the cake and place the candles on top.