Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Bumble Bee Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 350g marzipan

• 500g sugar-paste icing

• yellow, black, blue and red food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 50g desiccated coconut

• 25cm square cake board

• 6 sugar-paste daisies

• 1 paper doily

• sticky tape

• 1 pipe cleaner

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Cut in half to make semicircles, sandwich the halves together and stand upright on the cake board. Trim the ends to shape the head and tail. Brush with apricot jam and cover with a layer of marzipan. Tint 350g of the sugar-paste icing yellow and use to cover the cake.

2. Tint 115g/4oz of the sugar-paste  icing black. Roll out and cut three stripes, each 2.5 x 25cm. Space evenly on the cake and stick on with water. Use the remaining icing to make the eyes and mouth, tinting the icing blue for the pupils and pink for the mouth. Stick on with water.

3. Tint the coconut with a drop of yellow coloring. Cover the cake board with royal icing then sprinkle with coconut. Place the daisies on the board.

4. To make the wings, cut the doily in half, wrap each half into a cone shape and stick together with sticky tape. Cut the pipe cleaner in half and stick the pieces into the cake, just behind the head. Place the wings over the pipe cleaners.