Children's Party Cakes
Recipes
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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
Method:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Children's Cakes
Recipes - Pinball Machine Cake Recipe
