Children's Party Cakes Recipes - Train Cake

Ingredients

• train shaped sponge cake, about 35cm long

• 675g butter icing

• yellow food coloring

• red liquorices bootlaces

• 90-120ml colored vermicelli

• 4 liquorices wheels

• 25 x 38cm cake board

• 2 fabric piping bags

• small round and small star nozzles

• pink and white cotton wool balls

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Method:

1. Slice off the top surface of the cake to make it flat. Place diagonally on the cake board

2. Tint the butter icing yellow. Use half of it to cover the cake.

3. Using a round nozzle and a quarter of the remaining butter icing, pipe a straight double border around the top edge of the cake.

4. Place the red liquorices bootlaces on the piped border. Snip the bootlaces around the curves on the train.

5. Using a small star nozzle and the remaining butter icing, pipe small stars over the top of the cake. Add extra liquorices and piping, if you like. Use a palette knife to press on the Colored vermicelli all around the sides of the  cake.

6. Pull a couple of balls of cotton wool apart for the steam and stick on the cake board with butter icing. Press the liquorices wheels in place for the wheels.