Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Musical Cake

Ingredients

• 25cm square sponge cake

• 225g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• 115g royal icing

• black food coloring

• 25 x 30cm cake board

• wooden cocktail stick

• 2 small greaseproof paper piping bags

• No 0 writing and No 7 shell nozzles

• 1.5ml red ribbon

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with a little butter icing. Cut a 5cm/2in strip off one side of the cake. Place the cake on the cake board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan then sugar-paste  icing. Leave to dry overnight.

2. Make a template and mark out the sheet of music and child's name with a cocktail stick.

3. Using white royal icing and a No 0 nozzle, begin by piping the lines and bars. Leave to dry.

4. Tint the remaining icing black and pipe the clefs, name and notes. With the shell nozzle, pipe a royal icing border around the base of the cake and tie a ribbon around the side.