Swimming Pool Cake (#Team Honk Bake Off)
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Recipe type: desserts
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Serves: 15
 
Ingredients
  • 200g unsalted butter
  • 200g self raising flour
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 tsp elderflower cordial (or vanilla essence)
  • ½ jar of jam - I used strawberry
  • 100g cold unsalted butter
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 2 tbsp white chocolate spread
  • ½ tube of Dr Oetekar blue liquid gel food colouring
  • 4 bars of white chocolate (4 x 100g bars)
  • 250g approx of white marzipan (white ready to roill icing would work aswell - i didnt have any hence the marzipan)
  • blue edible glitter beads
  • edible sweet necklaces
  • white chocolate fingers
  • playmobil figures (optional)
Instructions
  1. pre heat the oven to 180oC / 160o C (fan)
  2. grease and line a rectangle baking tin - I used an 8 x 10inch
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar for a few minutes until pale and fluffy
  4. Add the eggs and the elderflower cordial and a spoonful of flour and beat for a couple more minutes
  5. Fold in the remaining flour
  6. Pour into the tin and cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes until cooked right through
  7. Once cooked, remove from the oven and allow to cool
  8. While cooling make your buttercream by beating the butter until soft. then carefully add the icing sugar bit by bit to make smooth paste. Beat in the white chocolate spread.
  9. Divide the buttercream into two portions, and in one lot stir in the blue food colouring
  10. Once the sponge has cooled completely, carefully slice in half with a sharp knife to make 2 sponges the same size as the baking tin
  11. Sandwich together with the jam
  12. Around the outer perimeter of the cake slather on some white buttercream. Divide the white chocolate bars in half length ways, and stick around the sides of the cake. You will have to break some of the chocolate up again to fit into the gaps.
  13. Add the blue buttercream to the top of the cake - no need ot smooth it completely, you want it to look a bit rippled
  14. Roll out the marzipan to about ½ cm thickness and cut out strips to fit along each top side of the cake. I then added the blue glitter to the top of the marzipan.
  15. The I added edible sweet necklaces to make swimming lanes and some white chocolate fingers to make a pool ladder
  16. To finish off the look, I added some Play Mobil figures which came with the Play Mobil swimming set!
Recipe by Mummy Mishaps at http://www.mummymishaps.co.uk/2014/04/swimming-pool-cake-team-honk-bake-off.html