Name: Cute mouse cake
Prep time: 90 min
Total time: 90 min
Ingredients: Equipment; 30 centimetre round cake board; 1 small plastic ziptop bag; Cake; 450 gram packet double round unfilled sponge cake; 453 gram tub vanilla frosting; black food colouring; Decorations; 2 large domed pink marshmallows, halved horizontally; 1 white marshmallow, halved horizontally; 1 black round jube; 1 white tic tac; 1 pink musk stick; 1 sugar-free double d pink lolly

Ingredients

Equipment

30 centimetre round cake board

1 small plastic ziptop bag

Cake

450 gram packet double round unfilled sponge cake

453 gram tub vanilla frosting

black food colouring

Decorations

2 large domed pink marshmallows, halved horizontally

1 white marshmallow, halved horizontally

1 black round jube

1 white tic tac

1 pink musk stick

1 sugar-free double d pink lolly

Method

1.Level cake tops. Spread one cake with a little frosting; top with remaining cake. Using picture as a guide, trim cake into a heart shape, removing as little of cake as possible. Secure cake to cake board using a little frosting.

2.Reserve 1/3 cup of the frosting; tint remaining frosting grey. Spread grey frosting all over cake. Spoon reserved frosting into ziptop bag, snip one corner, carefully pipe a heart-shaped face in centre of cake, fill with remaining white frosting, smooth with a spatula.

3.Flatten each bottom half of pink marshmallows with palm of your hand and position on cake for ears, top with white marshmallow halves. Cut jube in half horizontally; position cut-side up on face for eyes. Cut Tic Tac in halfcrossways; position on top of eyes for pupils. Cut musk stick in half crossways then slice each half into long thin strips, position on cake as whiskers. Position double D lolly for nose.

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