Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Fish-shaped Cake

Ingredients

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• blue, orange, red, mauve and green food coloring

• sponge cake, baked in a 3.5 liter ovenproof mixing bowl

• 350g butter icing

• 1 blue Smartie

• large oval cake board

• 2.5cm plain biscuit cutter

• greaseproof paper piping bag

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Method:

1. Tint two-thirds of the sugar-paste icing blue, roll out very thinly and use to cover the dampened cake board.

2. Invert the cake and trim into the fish shape. Slope the sides. Place on the cake board.

3. Tint all but 15ml of the butter icing orange. Use to cover the cake, smoothing with a palette knife. Score curved lines for scales, starting from the tail end.

4. Tint half the remaining sugar-paste icing red. Shape and position two lips. Cut ,out the tail and fins. Mark with lines using a knife and position on the fish. Make the eye from white sugar-paste and the blue Smartie.

5. Tint a little sugar-paste mauve, cut out crescent-shaped scales using a biscuit cutter and place on the fish. Tint the remaining sugar-paste green and cut into long thin strips. Twist each strip and arrange around the board.

6. To make the bubbles around the fish, place the reserved butter icing in a piping bag, snip off the end and pipe small circles on to the board.