Children's Party Cakes
Recipes
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Treasure Map Cake
Ingredients
25cm square
sponge cake
225g butter icing
45ml apricot jam,
warmed and sieved
450g marzipan
675g sugar paste
icing
yellow, brown,
paprika, green, black and red food coloring
115g royal icing
25 x 35cm cake
board
fine pain brush
kitchen paper
4 small
greaseproof paper piping bags
No 7 shell and No
1 writing nozzles
6 candles and
holder
Method:
Split and fill
the cake with butter icing, cut it into a 20 x
25cm/8 x 10in rectangle and place on the cake board.
Brush with apricot jam. Cover with a layer of
marzipan then with 450g/11b/3cups sugar-paste icing.
Color the
remaining sugar-paste icing yellow and cut out
with an uneven outline. Stick on to the cake
with water and leave to dry overnight. Mark the
island, river, lake, mountains and trees on the
map.
With brown and
paprika Colors and a fine paintbrush, paint the
edges of the map to look old, smudging the Colors
together with kitchen paper. Paint the island pale
green and the water around the island, the river and
the lake pale blue. Dry overnight before painting on
the other details, otherwise the Colors will run.
Pipe a border of
royal icing around the base of the cake with a shell
nozzle. Color a little royal icing red and pipe the
path to the treasure, marked With an "X". Color some
icing green and pipe on grass and trees. Finally
Color some icing black and pipe on a North sign with
the writing nozzle.
Children's Cakes
Recipes - Treasure Map Cake Recipe
