Ingredients
Method
1.Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan forced). Line a 12-hole (1/3-cup/80ml) muffin pan with paper cases.
2.Make cake according to directions on packet. Drop 2½ level tablespoons of mixture into each paper case, bake about 20 minutes. Stand cakes in pan 5 minutes before turning, top-side up, onto wire rack to cool.
3.To make the butter cream. Beat the butter (and any flavouring if using) in a small bowl with an electric beater until the butter is as white as possible. (This will result in a whiter buttercream which will give you better results if colouring it). Gradually beat in half of the sifted icing sugar, then the milk, then the remaining sifted icing sugar. Beat until the butter cream is smooth and spreadable. Keep scraping down the side of the bowl during beating.
4.Tint half the butter cream green. Divide remaining butter cream between two small bowls, tint one bowl blue. Stir the sifted cocoa into the remaining butter cream.
5.Spread each butter cream over the tops of cakes, matching the colour of the paper cases with the colour of the butter cream. Sprinkle brown-coloured cakes with crushed chocolate biscuits.
6.Using picture as a guide, assemble cakes on cake board to resemble the number 6, secure cakes with a little butter cream. Use the Curly Wurly to make a trellis, intertwine the snakes to resemble vines. Decorate with mint leaves and icing flowers.
7.Decorate brown cakes with jelly-filled strawberries and mint leaves. Using the end of a teaspoon, make a small hole in two of the brown cakes, gently push one end of the sour worms into the holes.
8.Cut coloured layers of the licorice allsorts into the shape of a shovel, bucket and watering can, position on blue cakes. Position butterflies and ladybirds on the cakes.
EQUIPMENT 12-hole (⅓ -cup/80ml) standard muffin pan 12 standard paper cases (5 green, 4 brown, 3 blue) 40cm x 50cm (16-inch x 20-inch) cake board You’ll have ¾ cup of the cake mixture left over, enough for another three cakes. Many children like gardening, so take-home treats could be small gardening tools. Use the handle of a teaspoon to make a small hole in the top of the cake. Push the sour worms into the cake, as pictured.
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