SCHOOL BAG CAKE - Sponge cake in shape of a school bag.

SCHOOL BAG CAKE
Sponge cake in shape of a school bag.
Preparation Time : 15 - 20 minutes
Cooking Time : 20 - 25 minutes
Servings : 4
INGREDIENTS
Sponge cake, Square
1
Butter icing
100 grams
Sugar paste
1/2 kilogram
Royal icing
50 grams
Icing sugar
for dusting
Paste colors
as required
METHOD
Slice the sponge cake horizontally and apply a little butter icing on the sliced side of one slice. Place the other over it. Apply a very thin coat of the butter icing on the top and the sides of the cake. Add pink colour paste to 2/3 of the sugar paste and mix well. To ¼ of the remaining paste add yellow colour paste. Add blue colour paste to the remaining. Sprinkle a little icing sugar over a flat surface and gently roll the pink coloured paste to a square shape about ¼ cm. in thickness. Make sure the rolled out paste is large enough to cover the cake fully.Place the cake over an icing stand. Gently lift the rolled out paste and place it over the cake. Gently push in the sides towards the cake, first at the corners then in the sides. Smoothen out the surface with a smoother. Cut out the extra paste using a plain knife. To make the flap, roll out the blue coloured paste similarly. To cut it in shape, use a template cut on a card paper. Dip a paint brush in boiled water and brush lightly over the area where the flap is to be placed. Place the cut out blue coloured flap and gently press it in place. Cut out two finger sized strips in blue and stick half over the flap and half over the pink bag to resemble the buckle straps. Over this place two small buttons made out of yellow paste. For the name tag cut out a small rectangle of yellow paste and paste in place over the blue flap. To make the belt, roll out the remaining pink coloured paste like a long sausage. Flatten it with a rolling pin. Cut in shape and keep it in place, sticking the two edges to the sides of the bag. Take blue coloured royal icing in a piping bag, using a medium thick nozzle write a name over the name tag. In another piping bag, take yellow coloured royal icing, using a thin nozzle pipe out tiny strips at the edge of the blue flap to resemble stitches. Now the school bag is ready.