Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Hotdog Cake

Ingredients

• 23 x 33cm Swiss roll sponge

• 175g coffee flavor butter icing

• 90ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450 sugar paste icing

• brown and red food coloring

• 15-30ml toasted sesame seeds

• 115g glace icing

• 175g sponge cake pieces

• 50g dark brown sugar

• 45ml orange juice

• 75ml honey

• fine paint brush

• 2 small greaseproof paper piping bags

• napkin, plate, knife and fork

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Method:

1. Unroll the Swiss roll, spread with butter icing, then roll up again. Slice the Swiss roll along the centre lengthways, almost to the base and ease the two halves apart.

2. Mix all the filling ingredients in a food processor or blender until smooth. Shape the mixture with your hands to a 23cm/9in sausage shape.

3. Tint all the sugar-paste icing brown. Set aside 50g/2oz and use the rest to cover the cake.

4. Paint the top of the "bun" with diluted brown food Coloring to give a toasted effect. Position the "sausage"..

5. Divide the glace icing in half. Tint one half brown and the other red. Pipe red icing along the sausage, then overlay with brown icing. Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the "bun"..

6. Cut the reserved brown sugar-paste icing into thin strips. Place on the cake with the joins under the "sausage". Place the cake on a napkin on a serving plate, with a knife and fork.