Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Fairy Castle Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 675g marzipan

• 8 mini Swiss rolls

• 675g royal icing

• red, blue and green food coloring

• jelly diamonds

• 4 ice cream cones

• 2 ice cream wafers

• 50 desiccated coconut

• 8 marshmallows

• 30 cm square cake board

• wooden cocktail stick

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing, place in the centre of the board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan. Cover each of the Swiss rolls with marzipan. Stick four of them around the cake and cut the other four in half.

2. Tint two-thirds of the royal icing pale pink and cover the cake. Ice the extra pieces of Swiss roll and stick them around the top of the cake. Use a cocktail stick to score the walls with a brick pattern. Make windows on the comer towers from jelly diamonds. Cut the ice cream cones to make the tower spires and stick them in place. Leave to dry overnight.

3. Tint half the remaining royal icing pale blue and cover the cones. Use a fork to pattern the icing. Shape the wafers for the gates, stick to the cake and cover with blue icing. Use the back of a knife to mark planks.

4. Tint the coconut with a few drops of green coloring. Spread the board with the remaining royal icing and sprinkle over the coconut. Stick on the marshmallows with a little royal icing to make the small turrets.