Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Porcupine Cake

Ingredients

• 2 chocolate sponge cakes, baked in a 1.2 liter and a 600ml pudding basin

• 500g chocolate flavor butter icing

• cream, black, green, brown and red food coloring

• 5-6 chocolate flakes

• 50g white marzipan

• 36cm long rectangular cake board

• wooden cocktail stick

• fine paint-brush

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Method:

1. Use the smaller cake for the head and shape a pointed nose at one end. Reserve the trimmed wedges.

2. Place the cakes side-by-side on the board, inverted, and use the trimmings to fill in the sides and top where they meet. Secure with butter icing.

3. Cover the cake with the remaining butter icing and mark the nose with a cocktail stick.

4. Make the spikes by breaking the chocolate flakes into thin strips and sticking them into the butter icing all over the body part of the porcupine.

5. Reserve a small portion of marzipan. Divide the remainder into three and tint cream, black and green. Tint a tiny portion of the reserved marzipan brown. Shape cream ears and feet, black-and white eyes, and black claws and nose. Arrange all the features on the cake. Make green apples and highlight in red with a fine paintbrush. Make the stalks from the brown marzipan and push them in to the apples.