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How to make a bin lorry birthday cake
You will need:
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- Cake mix, or ingredients to make your chosen sponge flavour
- Fondant icing - I bought blue, black and white. I mixed black and white to make the grey and I used food colouring to make the yellow and green.
- Red food colouring
- Butter cream
- Strawberry jam
- Plus the following extras....
How to make the bin lorry birthday cake:
As I wasn't planning on writing this post, my photos are a little limited, but hopefully these annotated step by step photos will provide a good guide for you to copy from.
There are a few steps prior to this first picture which are as follows:
- Bake the 2 cake loaves and section them as per the photo below
- Roll the icing on top of baking paper, using icing sugar to stop it sticking.
- To cover the cake in the fondant icing, apply a thin layer of strawberry jam which will act as the 'glue'. Carefully apply the icing a side at a time, using the baking paper to help you smooth it down. Seal any edges with water and a soft paintbrush.
- Different parts of the loaves are stuck together using jam and buttercream and the MIKADO dowel rods as follows...
Do you have any questions?? Pop them in the comments below and I will reply as soon as I am able.
Sarah x
ps: pinnable image at the bottom...
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