Recipe

Young artist’s cake

Do you have a young doodler? This birthday cake is fun and colourful, perfect for any young aspiring doodling artist.

Sep 30, 2015 2:00pm
  • 1 hr preparation
  • Serves 1
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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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