Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Number 6 Cake

Ingredients

• 15cm round and 15cm square sponge cake

• 115g butter icing

• 60ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 500g sugar paste icing

• yellow and green food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 25 x 35cm cake board

• 2 small greaseproof paper piping bags

• 7.5cm fluted cutter

• No. 1 plain and No 8 star nozzles

• plastic train set with 6 candles.

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cakes with butter icing. Cut the square cake in half and cut, using the round cake tin as a guide, a rounded end from one rectangle to fit around the round cake. Trim the cakes to the same depth and assemble the number on the cake board. Brush with apricot jam and cover with a thin layer of marzipan.

2. Tint 450g of the sugar-paste icing yellow and the rest green. Cover the cake with the yellow icing. With the cutter, mark a circle in the centre of the round cake. Cut out a green sugar-paste icing circle. Stick in place with water and leave to dry overnight.

3. Mark a track the width of the train on the top of the cake. Tint the royal icing yellow and pipe the track with the plain nozzle. Use the star nozzle to pipe a border around the base and top of the cake. Pipe the name on the green circle and attach the train and candles with royal icing.