Name: Young artist’s cake
Prep time: 60 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: Equipment; 30 centimetre x 45cm cake board; 4 disposable plastic piping bags; Cake; 2 x 450g packets double unfilled sponge slabs; 2 x 453g tubs vanilla frosting; blue, red, green and yellow food colouring; Decorations; 50 gram white chocolate melts; 8 mini sponge rolls; 1 ice-cream wafer; 65 m&m’s; 4 ice-cream cones, ends trimmed; 2 centimetre piece black licorice strap; green, red, blue, yellow and orange coloured sprinkles

Ingredients

Equipment

30 centimetre x 45cm cake board

4 disposable plastic piping bags

Cake

2 x 450g packets double unfilled sponge slabs

2 x 453g tubs vanilla frosting

blue, red, green and yellow food colouring

Decorations

50 gram white chocolate melts

8 mini sponge rolls

1 ice-cream wafer

65 m&m’s

4 ice-cream cones, ends trimmed

2 centimetre piece black licorice strap

green, red, blue, yellow and orange coloured sprinkles

Method

1.Secure 2 sponge slabs, long sides together, on the cake board with a little frosting. Spread top with a little frosting. Top with remaining sponge slabs. Spread top and sides of cake with a quarter of the frosting.

2.Divide remaining frosting into 4 small bowls. Tint each bowl a different colour.

3.Melt chocolate. Attach two mini sponge rolls together with a little of the melted chocolate. Trim one end to shape into a paint tube. Repeat with remaining sponge rolls. Spread each tube with some of the different coloured frosting.

4.Cut wafer into 4 rectangles. Spread wafers with remaining chocolate. Allow to set.

5.Place remaining coloured frosting into piping bags. Snip the end off the piping bags. Pipe a heart shape onto each wafer. Position wafers onto ‘paint tubes’.

6.Using picture as a guide, position M&M’s, ‘paint tubes’ and ice-cream cones on cake.

7.Write a party message onto cake with frosting. Cut licorice strap into a round to fit the opening of one ice-cream cone. Secure with a little chocolate to make lid. Cut a larger hole at end of piping bags. Pipe frosting coming out of remaining ice-cream cones.

8.Decorate cake board with sprinkles.

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