Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Fire Engine Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm square sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 350g marzipan

• 450 sugar-paste icing

• red, black and green food coloring

• liquorices strips

• 115g royal icing

• sweets

• 50g desiccated coconut

• 25cm round cake board

• small greaseproof paper piping bag

• No 2 plain nozzle

• 2 silver bells

• 3 candles and holders

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with the butter icing. Cut in half and sandwich one half on top of the other. Place on the cake board and brush with apricot jam.

2. Trim a thin wedge off the front edge to make a sloping windscreen. Cover with marzipan. Tint 350g  of the sugar-paste icing red and use to cover the cake.

3. For the ladder, cut the liquorices into two strips and some short pieces for the rungs. Tint half the royal icing black and use some to stick the ladder to the top of the cake. Roll out the I remaining sugar-paste icing, cut out windows and stick them on with a little water.

4. Pipe around the windows in black royal icing. Stick sweets in place for headlights, lamps and wheels and stick the silver bells on the roof. Tint the coconut green, spread a little royal icing over the cake board and sprinkle with the coconut. Stick sweets to the board with royal icing and press the candles into the sweets.