Lolly truck cake

Ingredients

Equipment

• 30 centimetre x 40cm rectangular cake board

Cake

• 450 gram packet double unfilled sponge slabs
• 2 x 453g tubs vanilla frosting
• 400 gram packet madeira cake blue food colouring

Decorations

• 100 gram white chocolate melts
• 8 chocolate-filled chocolate biscuits
• 1 ice-cream wafer
• 4 mango flavoured licorice twists5 raspberry twists
• 1 orange peanut m&m, halved
• 2 green soft eating licorice
• 50 gram ready-made green icing pure icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting
• 1/2 x 170g packet milk bottles
• 1/2 x 175g packet fizzy cola bottles
• 1/2 x 160g packet liquid-filled cola bottle
• 6 blue sprinkle licorice allsorts
• 2 cup coloured candy popcorn

Method

1. Secure one of the sponge cakes onto cake board with a little frosting. Place madeira cake on cake board at one short end of sponge cake; trim top of madeira cake so it is level with sponge cake (reserve trimmed cake piece). Secure madeira cake to cake board with a little frosting. Cut reserved madeira cake piece in half, diagonally lengthwise to form a wedge; place wedges on sponge cake at end closest to madeira cake. Secure remaining sponge cake on top of other sponge with a little frosting. It should sit on an angle with madeira wedges between sponge cakes.
2. Tint frosting blue. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake.
3. Reserve 8 chocolate Melts. Melt remaining chocolate. Secure reserved chocolate Melts to biscuits with a little of the melted chocolate. Spread remaining melted chocolate over one side of wafer. Set aside to set. Using picture as a guide, position biscuits and wafer onto cake.
4. Using picture as a guide, position mango twists, raspberry twists and M&M on cake. Attach two green licorice together; position for exhaust pipe.
5. Knead ready-made icing on a surface dusted with a little sifted icing sugar until it loses its stickiness. Roll icing until 3mm thick. Cut icing into 6 arrows, 4cm long. Fold in half to make recycling symbol. Attach 3 on either side of cake.
6. Fill top of cake with remaining lollies, spilling over back of cake.