Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Noah's Ark Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm square sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• brown, yellow and blue food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• chocolate mint stick

• 25cm square cake board

• skewer

• rice paper flag

• small animal cake ornaments

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Cut off and set aside a 7.5cm/3in strip. Shape the remaining piece of cake to form the hull of the boat. Place diagonally on the cake board

2. Use the set-aside piece of cake, to cut a rectangle 10 x 6cm/4 x 21-1in for the cabin and a triangular piece for the roof. Sandwich together with butter icing or apricot jam.

3. Cover the three pieces with a layer of marzipan. Tint the sugar-paste  icing brown and use most of it to cover the hull and cabin. Use the remaining brown icing to make a long sausage. Stick around the edge of the hull with water. Mark planks with the back of a knife. Leave to dry overnight.

4. Tint one-third of the royal icing yellow and spread it over the cabin roof with a palette knife. Roughen it with a skewer to create a thatch effect.

5. Tint the remaining royal icing blue and spread over the cake board, making rough waves. Stick a rice paper flag on to I the chocolate mint stick and press on the back of the boat. Stick the small animals on to the boat with a dab of icing.