Recipe

Team fever

Jan 31, 2011 1:00pm
  • 30 mins preparation
  • 35 mins cooking
  • Serves 12
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Ingredients

Team fever
  • 4 x 340g packets buttercake mix
  • 40cm x 60cm rectangular prepared board
  • yellow and blue colouring
  • 2/3 cup (100g) white chocolate melts, melted
  • 130 gram tube red fruity metres
  • 130 gram tube green fruity metres
  • black decorating gel
  • blue and yellow candy letter decorations
Butter cream
  • 250 gram (4 ounces) butter
  • 3 cup (240g) confectioner's sugar
  • 4 tablespoon milk

Method

Team fever
  • 1
    Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease two 26cm x 32cm baking dishes (base measurements), line bases with baking paper. Using four packets, prepare cake mix according to directions; divide mixture evenly among prepared dishes. Bake about 35 minutes. Stand cake in dishes 5 minutes; turn onto wire racks to cool.
  • 2
    Using paper pattern, cut out half the jersey, turn pattern and cut out other half. Place cakes on board.
  • 3
    To make butter cream; beat butter until white as possible, gradually beat in half the sifted icing sugar then milk, then remaining icing sugar. Beat until smooth.
  • 4
    Tint butter cream with yellow colouring. Spread top and side of the cake with butter cream.
  • 5
    Decorate Jersey with strips of red and green Fruity Metres on sleeves, collar and hem.
  • 6
    To make happy birthday and number plaques, make outlines of a 4cm x 16cm rectangle and 5.5mm circle on baking paper. Tint melted chocolate with blue colouring. Spread chocolate within the rectangle and circle outlines; when chocolate is almost set, trim edges; peel off paper.
  • 7
    Using decorating gel, pipe on plaques. Carefully lift and position plaques on cake. Press candy letters onto sleeves of jersey, as desired.

Notes

Make a cake in shape of a football jersey, decorate it with the colours of your child's favourite team to make him the hero of the day.

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