Duck Pond Cake

If you're looking for a fruity cake recipe or an idea for a birthday or Christening cake then why not make this duck pond cake? It's so cute and kids will love the little yellow ducks on top.

Course cake, Dessert

Cuisine British

Prep Time 1

Cook Time 1 20

Total Time 2 20

Servings

Calories 166kcal

Author Corina Blum

Ingredients

Ingredients for the Cake

100 g butter at room temperature
100 g caster sugar
100 g raisins
140 g currants
2 eggs
175 g self-raising flour
1 tablespoon marmalade

Ingredients for Decorating the Cake

1 tablespoon orange marmalade
white ready to roll icing
blue food colour
yellow food colour
black writing icing
green designer icing with a flat nozzle
icing sugar

Instructions

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and stir with a wooden spoon until you get a stiff cake batter.
Grease an 18cm cake tin and line the bottom with baking paper. Spoon in the cake batter.Bake in the oven at 160°c or fan 140°c for 60-80 minutes.
Turn it out and leave it to cool on a wire rack before beginning to decorate it. Melt the marmelade in the microwave and brush it thinly over the top and sides of the cake.
Sprinkle some icing sugar on the work bench. Take enough white icing to cover the whole cake. Add some blue food colour and knead the icing until it is all mixed in. If the colour is too pale, just add a little more food colour.
Roll out the blue icing and cover the cake with it. Trim off the excess icing from around the bottom of the cake.
Wash your hands to get rid of any blue food colour. Add some yellow food colour to some more of the white icing. Knead it again and then form it into the duck shapes.
Use the black writing icing to make dots for the ducks' eyes. Use the green designer icing to pipe the grass on the side of the cake.

Notes

Nutritional information is approximate and for the cake only not the icing as I haven't calculated the quantities use.

Nutrition

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