Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Teddy's Birthday Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round cake

• 115 butter icing

• 45ml apricot jam, warmed and sieved

• 350 marzipan

• 450 sugar-paste icing

• brown, red, blue and black food coloring

• 115 royal icing

• edible silver balls

• 25cm round cake board

• small greaseproof paper piping bags

• No 7 shell and No 7 start nozzle

• 1.5m red ribbon

• 2 candles and holders

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with butter icing. Place on the cake board and brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of marzipan then a layer of sugar-paste icing. Using a template, mark the design on top of the cake.

2. Color one-third of the remaining sugar-paste icing pale brown. Color a piece pink, a piece red, some blue and a tiny piece black. Using the template, cut out the pieces and place in position on the cake. Stick down by lifting the edges carefully and brushing the undersides with a little water. Roll small ovals for the eyes and stick in place with the nose and eyebrows. Cut out a mouth and press flat.

3. Tie the ribbon around the cake. Color the royal icing blue and pipe the border around the base of the cake with the shell nozzle and tiny stars around the small cake with the star nozzle, inserting silver balls. Put the candles on the cake.