Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Toy Car Cake

Ingredients

• 20cm round sponge cake

• butter icing

• apricot jam, warmed and served

• 450 marzipan

• 500g sugar-paste icing

• yellow, red and black food coloring

• 30ml royal icing

• red and green sweets

• 25cm round cake board

• wooden cocktail stick

• cutters, 4cm and 2.5cm

• small greaseproof paper piping bag

• No 1 writing nozzle

• 2 candles and holders

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Method:

1. Split and fill the cake with the butter icing. Cut in half and sandwich the halves together. Stand upright and slice off pieces to create the windscreen and bonnet. Place on the cake board and brush with apricot jam.

2. Cut a strip of marzipan to cover the top of the cake to level the joins. Then cover the cake all over with marzipan. Tint 450g of the sugar-paste icing yellow and use to cover the cake. Leave to dry overnight.

3. Mark the outlines of the doors and windows on to the car with a cocktail stick.

4. Tint the remaining sugar-paste icing red. Cut out four wheels with the larger cutter. Stick in place with water. Mark the hubs in the centre of each wheel with the smaller cutter.

5. Tint the royal icing black and pipe over the outline marks of the doors and windows. Stick on sweets for headlights with royal icing. Press the candles into sweets and stick to the board with royal icing.