•  Cut your sandwiches into stars or triangles
•  Crisps
•  Mini tomatoes
•  Small pieces of cucumber

•  Mini fruit kebabs with apples, bananas, pinapple...
•  Little cubes of cheese and mini tomatoes on sticks.

Step 1

Make a simple sponge cake: see recipies

or

Order a cake from your bakers

Step 2 (optional)

Use a ready-made icing.

or

Prepare an icing coating: (see recipes) and apply to cake.

Step 3

Take the edible cake decoration delicately from the backing card
(hint :apply a thin coat of jam on the cake to make it stick)

Melt the syrup with the butter in a pan, add the chocolat letting it melt slowly.

Remove from heat, add the sugar, the cornflakes then the raisins.
Put in paper cases and leave to cool.

• 100g butter
• 200g chocolat
• 50g sugar
• 200g cornflakes
• 2 tablespoons of syrup or honey
• 50 g raisins

Beat the sugar and butter together, add the eggs bit by bit,sieve in the flour and the backing powder and then fold it gently into the mixture.

Put the mixture in a buttered cake tin lined with grease proof paper, bake at 160° for approx.30 minutes.

Chocolate: You can replace 25g of flour with 25g cacao powder.

Lemon: Grate the rind of 2 lemons and mix with the butter and sugar.Mix the lemon juice with 25g of sugar and the pour directly on the cake when it comes out of the oven.

• 150g butter
• 150g sugar
• 150g plain flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 3 eggs (lightly beaten)

Melt the chocolate and butter. Add the sugar and the egg yolks. Add the flour in small quantities whisk the whites of the eggs and add to the mixture. Pour into a cake tin and bake at 150° for 15-20min.

• 130g dark chocolate
• 130g butter
• 200g sugar
• 90g plain flour
• 4 eggs

Mix a little water with the icing sugar until you get a smooth cream.

Or

Mix together 20g of butter to get a smooth cream, add some drops of vanilla essence or cacao powder.
Smooth over the cake top and sides.

• 100g icing sugar
• Boiling water