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Fairy Cottage


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The smiles which this cake will light on children's faces will make your labors in preparation worth their while.

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Preparation Time: 1 hour.
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Serves 20 children.


Ingredients


Victoria Sponge Cake Mixture
a few drops cochineal
a few drops of green colouring
vanilla butter icing

For the roof
1 packet of cream wafer biscuits
vanilla butter icing
15 to 20 jujubes

For the chimney
50 gms small coloured aniseed sweets
1 cherry
Vanilla Butter Cream/ Icing

For the coating
white glace Icing
Royal Icing

For the door and windows
a few biscuits
white glace icing

For the sofa
2 biscuits

For the well
a few biscuits

For the grass and steps
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
3 tbsp powdered sugar
a few drops of green colouring
gem sweets
a few jujubes

Method
  1. Grease and dust three 200 mm. (8") square cake tins.
  2. In one of the cake mixtures, add cochineal and add green colouring in the second. Leave the third as it is.
  3. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F for 15 to 20 minutes.
  4. Cook the cakes and cut each into 2 vertical halves.
  5. Sandwich together 5 parts once on top of the other with the butter icing. Using any sequence of coloured cakes you like. Put this house base in a wooden board or large serving plate.
  6. From the remaining part, cut out a 25 mm. (1") thick strip lengthwise for the support of the roof. Keep aside the balance cake for making the chimney, sofa and well.
  7. Apply a little butter icing in the top centre (as the roof support) and put the cut strip so that it sticks.

For the roof
  1. Apply a little butter icing to the wafer biscuits and stick them on the top at a slant to form a roof. Leave a little space for the chimney.
  2. Apply a little butter icing to the jujubes and stick them on the roof.

For the chimney
  1. Cut a small piece 50 mm. x 25 mm. (2" x 1") from the remaining cake.
  2. Apply the butter icing to this piece and roll into the sweets.
  3. Stick this chimney on the roof with the help of a toothpick.
  4. Stick the cheery on the roof with the help of a thoothpick.
  5. Stick the cherry on the top of the chimney with the help of butter icing.

For the coating
  1. Apply the desired icing all over the house.

For the door and windows
  1. Apply a little glace icing to 2 rectangular biscuits and allow to dry. Fix these biscuits with the help of toothpicks as two halves of the door.
  2. Cut 1 small lintel for the door from a biscuit. Apply glace icing and allow to dry. Fix the lintel just above the door by pressing into the cake house.
  3. Cut 2 biscuits to form square windows. Apply glace icing and allow to dry. Stick the windows onto the house with the help of little butter icing.

For the sofa
  1. Cut a small piece from the balance cake. Put a biscuit on top of this piece as the seat and another biscuit over it as the back. Stick with the help of a toothpick.

For the well
  1. Cut one round from the remaining cake part with the help of a round biscuit cutter. Scoop out a little centre.
  2. Cut the biscuits into small strips and make a roof for the well. Fix the roof with the help of toothpicks and a little butter icing.

For the grass and steps
  1. Make a border of gem sweets on all four sides of the house.
  2. Add the powdered sugar and green colouring to the dessicated coconut, and sprinkle all around the cottage as grass.
  3. Make steps to the door using jujubes.
  4. Place the well and sofa on the sides of the house.

Tips
  1. VARIATION : FAIRY COTTAGE (EGGLESS)
  2. Proceed as above using an equivalent quantity of eggless sponge cake mixture.
  3. (Three recipes toattalling 1 1/2 can condensed milk) instead of the Victoria sponge cake mixture. Use white glace for coating instead of royal icing.
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