Children's Party Cakes
Recipes
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Floating Balloons Cake
Ingredients
20cm sponge or
fruit cake, covered with 800g marzipan, if liked
900g sugar paste
icing
red, green and
yellow food coloring
3 eggs
2 egg whites
450 icing sugar
25cm round cake
board
3 bamboo skewers,
25cm, 24cm and 23cm long
small star cutter
greaseproof paper
piping bags
fine writing
nozzle
1m fine colored
ribbon
8 candles
Method:
Place the cake on
the board. Tint 50g of the sugar-paste icing red,
50g
green and 115g/4oz/1 cup yellow. Cover the cake with
the remaining icing. Use just under half the yellow
icing to cover the board.
Using a
skewer, pierce the eggs and carefully empty the
contents. Wash and dry the shells. Cover them
carefully with the Tinted sugar-paste and insert
a bamboo skewer in each. Use the trimmings to
stamp out a star shape of each Color. Thread on
to the skewers for the balloon knots.
Trace 16 balloon
shapes on to baking paper. Beat the egg whites with
the icing sugar until smooth and divide among four
bowls. Leave one white and Tint the others red,
green and yellow. With the fine writing nozzle and
white icing, trace round the balloon shapes. Thin
the Tinted icings with water. Fill the run-outs
using snipped piping bags. Dry overnight.
Stick the
run-outs around the side of the cake with icing.
Pipe white balloon strings. Push the large balloons
into the centre and decorate with the ribbon. Push
the candles into the icing around the edge.
Children's Cakes
Recipes - Floating Balloons Cake Recipe
