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
Method:
Tint two-thirds
of the sugar-paste icing blue, roll out very thinly
and use to cover the dampened cake board.
Invert the
cake and trim into the fish shape. Slope the
sides. Place on the cake board.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Children's Cakes
Recipes - Fish-shaped Cake Recipe
