Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Dart Board Cake

Ingredients

• 25cm sponge cake

• 17g butter icing

• 5ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• 115g royal icing

• black, red, yellow and silver food coloring

• 30cm round cake board

• icing smoother

• 1cm plain circle cutter

• small greaseproof paper piping bag

• No 1 writing nozzle

• 3 candles and holders

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing and put on to the board. Brush with jam and cover with marzipan. Color some of the sugar-paste  icing black, a small piece red and the remaining yellow. Cover the cake with black sugar-paste  icing. Cut a 20cm/8in circular template out of greaseproof paper. Fold it in quarters, then divide each quarter into fifths.

2. Using the template, mark the centre and wedges on the top of the cake with a sharp knife. Cut out ten wedges from the yellow sugar-paste , using the template as a guide. Place on alternate sections but do not stick in place yet. Repeat with the black sugar-paste . Cut 3mm off each wedge and swoop the colors. Mark a 8cm/5in circle in the centre of the board and cut out 3mm pieces to swoop with adjoining colors. Stick in place and use an icing smoother to flatten.

3. Use the cutter to remove the centre for the bull's eye. Replace with a circle of red sugar-paste , cut with the same cutter. Surround it with a strip of black sugar-paste . Roll the remaining black sugar-paste  into a long sausage to fit round the base of the cake and stick in place with a little water. Mark numbers on the board and pipe on with royal icing. Leave to dry then paint with silver food coloring. Stick candles in at an angle to resemble darts.