Children's Party Cakes
Recipes
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Treasure
Chest Cake
Ingredients
20cm square
sponge cake
115g butter icing
45ml apricot jam,
warmed and sieved
350g marzipan
400g sugar-paste
icing
brown and green
food coloring
50g desiccated
coconut
115g royal icing
edible gold
dusting powder
edible silver
balls
chocolate money
30cm round cake
board
fine paint-brush
Method:
Split and
fill the cake with butter icing. Cut the cake in
half and sandwich the halves on top of each
other with butter icing. Place on the cake
board.
Shape the top
into a rounded lid and brush with apricot jam. Cover
with a layer of marzipan. Tint 350g/12oz of
the sugar-paste icing brown and use to cover the
cake.
Use the brown
sugar-paste trimmings to make strips. Stick on to the
chest with water. Mark the lid with a sharp knife.
Tint the coconut
with a few drops of green coloring. Spread a little
royal icing over the cake board and press the green
coconut lightly into it to make the grass.
From the
remaining sugar-paste icing, cut out the padlock and
handles. Cut a keyhole shape from the padlock and
shape the handles over a small box. Leave to dry.
Stick the padlock and handles in place with royal
icing and paint them gold. Stick silver balls on to
look like nails. Arrange the chocolate money on the
board.
Children's Cakes
Recipes - Treasure Chest Cake Recipe
