Children's Party Cakes Recipes - 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

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Method:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Use the brown sugar-paste  trimmings to make strips. Stick on to the chest with water. Mark the lid with a sharp knife.

4. 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.

5. 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.