Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Pirate's Hat Cake

Ingredients

• 25cm round sponge cake

• 225g butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 500g sugar-paste icing

• black and gold food coloring

• chocolate money

• jewel sweets

• 30cm square cake board

• fine paint brush

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Cut in half and sandwich the halves together. Stand upright diagonally across the cake board and cut shallow dips from each end to create the brim of the hat. Brush with apricot jam.

2. Cut a strip of marzipan to layover the top of the cake. Then cover the whole of the cake with a layer of marzipan. Tint 450g/11b/3 cups of the sugar-paste icing black. Use to cover the cake.

3. Roll out the remaining sugar-paste icing and cut some 1cm strips. Stick the strips in place with a little water around the brim of the pirate's hat and mark with the prongs of a fork to make a braid.

4. Make a skull and crossbones template and mark on to the hat. Cut the shapes out of the white sugar-paste icing and stick in place with water. Paint the braid strip gold and arrange the chocolate money and jewel sweets on the board.