Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Frog Prince Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g  marzipan

• corn flour, for dusting

• 400g sugar paste icing

• 115g royal icing

• green, red, black and gold food coloring

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Cut in half and sandwich the halves together with apricot jam. Stand upright diagonally across the cake board. Brush the cake with apricot jam and cover with marzipan.

2. Tint 450g of the sugar-paste icing green and cover the cake. Roll the remaining green sugar-paste icing into 1cm diameter sausages. You will need two folded 20cm/8in lengths for the back legs and 1410cm/4in lengths for the front legs and feet. Stick in place with a little royal icing. Roll balls for the eyes and stick in place.

3. Roll out the reserved sugar-paste icing and cut a 5 x 19cm strip. Cut out triangles along one edge to make the crown shape. Wrap around a glass dusted with corn-flour and moisten the edges to join. Leave to dry.

4. Cut a 10cm/4in circle for the white shirt. Stick in place and trim the base edge. Cut white circles and stick to the eyes. Tint a little sugar-paste pink, roll into a sausage and stick on for the mouth. Tint the rest black and use for the pupils and the bow tie. Stick in place.