Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Racing Track Cake

Ingredients

• 2 x 15cm round sponge cakes

• 115g butter icing

• 60ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 450g marzipan

• 500g sugar-paste icing

• blue and red food coloring

• 115g royal icing

• 25 x 35cm cake board

• 5cm fluted cutter

• 2 small greaseproof paper piping bags

• No 8 start and No 2 plain nozzles

• 8 candles and holders

• 2 small racing cars

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Method:

1.  Split and fill the cakes with a little butter icing. Cut off a 1cm piece from the side of each cake and place the cakes on the cake board, cut edges together.

2. Brush the cake with apricot jam and cover with a layer of marzipan. Tint 450g/11b/3 cups of the sugar-paste  icing pale blue and use to cover the cake.

3. Mark a 5cm/2in circle in the centre of each cake. Roll out the remaining white sugar-paste  icing and cut out two fluted 5ern/2in circles and stick them in the marked spaces.

4. Tint the royal icing red. Pipe a shell border around the base of the cake using the star nozzle. Pipe a track for the cars on the cake using the plain nozzle and stick the candles into the two white circles. Place the cars on the track.