Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Pinball Machine Cake

Ingredients

• 25cm square sponge cake

• 225g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 115 royal icing

• 450g sugar-paste icing

• yellow, blue, green and red food coloring

• sweets

• 2 ice cream fan wafers

• 20cm round cake tin

• 30cm square cake board

• small greaseproof paper piping bag

• No 1 writing nozzle

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Method:

1. Split and fill the sponge cake with butter icing. Cut off a 5cm/2in strip from one side and reserve. Cut a thin wedge off the top of the cake, diagonally along its length, to end just above the halfway mark. This will give a sloping table.

2. Using the cake tin as a guide, cut the reserved strip of cake to make a rounded back for the pinball table. Brush the back and table with apricot jam, then cover separately with marzipan and place on the board. Stick them together with royal icing. Leave to dry overnight.

3. Cover with a layer of sugar-paste icing and leave to dry. Use a template to mark out the pinball design on the top of the cake. Color the remaining sugar-paste icing yellow, blue, green and pink. Roll out the Colors and cut to fit the design. Stick on the pieces with water and smooth the joins carefully.

4. Using royal icing, stick sweets on the cake as buffers, flippers, lights and knobs. Roll some blue sugar-paste icing into a long sausage and edge the pinball table and divider. Cut zig-zags for the sides and a screen for the back. Stick on with water. Stick the ice cream fans at the back of the screen. Load the pinball sweets. Add the child's name on the screen with run-out letters or piping.