Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Computer Game Cake

Ingredients

• 15cm square sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 225g marzipan

• 275g sugar-paste icing

• black, blue, red and yellow food coloring

• royal icing, to decorate

• 20cm square cake board

• wooden cocktail stick

• fine paintbrush

• small greaseproof paper piping bag

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with a little butter icing. Cut 2.5ccm/1in off one side of the cake and 1cm off the other side. Round the corners slightly. Place on the cake board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan.

2. Tint 225g/8oz of the sugar-paste  black. Use to cover the cake. Reserve the trimmings. With a cocktail stick, mark the speaker holes and position of the screen and knobs.

3. Tint half the remaining sugar-paste  pale blue, roll out and cut out a 6cm square for the screen. Stick in the centre of I the game with a little water. Tint a small piece of sugar-paste  red and the rest yellow. Use to cut out the switch and controls. Stick them in position with water. Roll the reserved black sugar-paste  icing into a long, thin sausage and edge the screen and base of the cake.

4. With a fine paintbrush, draw the game on to the screen with a little blue coloring. Pipe letters on to the buttons with royal icing.