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450 g
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350 g
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Materials/equipment
1
2.5 cm |
Sugar paste icing
blue, orange, red, mauve and green food
coloring
Sponge cake, baked in a 3.5 liter ovenproof
mixing bowl
Butter icing
Blue Smartie
Large oval cake board
Plain biscuit cutter
Greaseproof paper piping bag |
Method :
- Tint two thirds of the sugar paste
icing blue, roll out very thinly and use to cover the dampened cake
board.
- Invert the cake and trim into the fish
shape. Slope the sides. Place on the cake board.
- Tint all but 15ml of the butter icing
orange. Use to cover the cake, smoothing with a palette knife. Score
curved lines for scales, starting from the tail end.
- Tint half the remaining sugar paste
icing red. Shape and position two lips. Cut out the tail and fins. Mark
with lines using a knife and position on the fish. Make the eye from
white sugar paste and the blue Smartie.
- Tint a little sugar paste mauve, cut
out crescent shaped scales using a biscuit cutter and place on the fish.
Tint the remaining sugar paste green and cut into long thin strips.
Twist each strip and arrange around the board.
- To make the bubbles around the fish,
place the reserved butter icing in a piping bag, snip off the end and
pipe small circles on to the board.
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