THE WHEELS ON THE BUS

PREP TIME 1 HOUR SERVES 12

EQUIPMENT

30cm x 40cm rectangular cake board

CAKE

453g tub vanilla frosting yellow food colouring

2 x 515g loaf cakes

2 x 42g muffin bars

DECORATIONS

1 metre black licorice strap 2 round orange jubes, halved

crossways

4 chocolate cream−filled biscuits small traffic toys, optional

1 Reserve ½ cup of frosting. Tint remaining frosting yellow. Remove icing from tops of loaf cakes; level cake tops. Secure one cake, cut−side down, on cake board with a little frosting; spread top of cake with

¼ cup yellow frosting. Top with remaining cake.

2 Using picture as a guide, stack and position muffin bars at one end of loaf cake to make front of bus, securing with a little yellow frosting.

3 Spread yellow frosting over top, front and bottom half of the bus, as pictured, but don’t frost the window area; reserve about 1 tablespoon of the frosting. Spread the reserved white frosting over sides of top half of cake for bus windows.

4 Cut lengths of licorice strap and position around base of cake. Secure jubes to front of bus as headlights.

5 Cut remaining licorice strap into long, thin strips; using picture as a guide, trim and position strips as windows and wipers. Using reserved frosting, secure biscuits to sides of cake for wheels. Position the traffic toys, as desired.