farmhouse cake
- 3 x 22cm (8½ in) square vanilla or chocolate cakes
(see link to recipe in step 1) - 1 slab tin vanilla or chocolate cake
(see link to recipe in step 1) - 3 quantities butter icing
(see lnik to recip in step 1) - 3 x 100g (3½ oz) packets wafer biscuits
- 8 chocolate sticks
- 30 small chocolate sticks
- 1 oval chocolate candy
- Use butter icing to secure a square vanilla or chocolate cake on a board. Spread with half of 1 quantity butter icing, top with another cake and repeat with the remaining icing and cake.
- Cut the slab cake in half diagonally to get two triangles. Place on top of the cakes at 5cm (2 in) apart and trim the edges. Use 1 quantity butter icing to ice the cake.
- To decorate, secure the small chocolate sticks around the edges of the house and 5 chocolate sticks along the top front of the roof. Tile the farmhouse with wafer biscuits.
- Divide the remaining chocolate sticks and use butter icing to create an attic door, and the other, along with the lolly, on the bottom half to create a front door.
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