RECYCLING TRANSPORTATION CHIEF

PREP TIME 1 HOUR SERVES 12

EQUIPMENT

30cm x 40cm rectangular cake board

CAKE

450g packet double unfilled sponge slabs

2 x 453g tubs vanilla frosting 400g packet madeira cake blue food colouring

DECORATIONS

100g white chocolate Melts

8 chocolate−filled chocolate biscuits

1 ice−cream wafer

4 mango−flavoured licorice twists

5 raspberry twists

1 orange peanut−coated M&M, halved

2 green soft−eating licorice

50g ready−made green icing pure icing sugar, to dust

½ x 170g packet milk bottles

½ x 175g packet fizzy cola bottles ½ x 160g packet liquid−filled cola bottle

6 blue sprinkle licorice allsorts 2 cups coloured candy popcorn

1 Secure one of the sponge layers onto the cake board with a little frosting. Place madeira cake on the cake board at one short end of the sponge cake; trim top of madeira cake so it’s level with the sponge cake (reserve trimmed cake piece). Secure madeira cake to cake board with a little frosting. Cut the reserved madeira cake piece in half, diagonally lengthwise, to form wedges; place the madeira wedge pieces on sponge cake at the end closest to madeira cake. Secure remaining sponge cake piece on top of the other sponge with a little frosting. It should sit on a slight angle, with the madeira wedge pieces between the two cakes.

2 Tint remaining 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 the 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 symbols. Attach 3 on either side of cake.

6 Fill top of cake with remaining lollies, spilling over back of cake.