Polly Pocket Birthday Cake
October 4th 2009 13:02
Polly Pocket Birthday Cake
This is an easy birthday cake to make - it uses polly pocket accessories to decorate the cake, and you can decorate it so that the children don't need to eat any artificial colours in the icing!!
Step 1
The first step is to bake a large cake - big enough to fit your chosen polly pockets on top of. I used a lamington cake tin - and a lamington cake recipe. The recipe I used is found in "The Golden Wattle Cookery Book" . Best made a day or two being used - which is perfect for party planning!
Step 2
Now you need to ice the cake.
I made a large silver board for the cake to sit on by covering a rectangle of thick cardboard with aluminium foil, and then covering that over with clear contact (the contact stops the Aluminium foil from tearing and allows you to wipe and clean the board).
I iced the entire cake with light brown icing (using cocoa to colour the icing).
First Layer of Icing
The icing can be made by melting a dessert spoon of butter in a small saucepan, then take off the heat. Add icing and some cocoa, and mix adding small amounts of water until at the desired consistency. You can smooth out the icing by dipping a knife into a cup of hot water, and applying this straight to the icing.
After I had finished icing the cake, I sprinkled over it lightly with drinking chocolate to create a sandy appearance to the icing.
Step 3
Now I made some blue icing, the same way as I made the above icing but substituting the cocoa with blue food colouring. I used this to make the "water" on the board, surrounding the "island". I did it this way so that the kids would not have to eat the blue food colouring in the blue icing with the cake, but could still enjoy the great colours that the artificial colours provide.
Then I arranged my daughters chosen (and carefully cleaned) polly pocket toys on the cake, along with some ceramic flower decorations and a happy birthday sign. I filled the swimming pool with blue icing too.
Step 4
Next I made some butter icing - place 2 dessert spoons of softened butter in a bowl, Add icing sugar, colouring and small amounts of milk while mixing with a wooden spoon. I made pink icing - you can use cochineal or small amounts of red to colour the icing,
I piped the icing using a rosette nozzle around the base of the cake (where it would be easily removed when cutting the cake so the kids didn't eat any artificial food colouring), and in the places I had chosen to place candles.
Step 5
Finally, just before presenting the cake to the girls at the party, I pushed the candles into the pre-prepared rosettes.
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