How To Make An Over The Hill Cake
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How To Make An Over The Hill Cake
This over the hill cake is the perfect way to welcome a friend into middle age. We've teamed up with expert Sugarcrafter Jan Clement-May and sugarcraft school, Squires Kitchen, to show you how to make it.
Step 1: Shape cake
Spread a small amount of buttercream in the centre of the large cake, and stick the smaller cake on top. Carve round the top outside rim of both cakes to make a rough dome shape.
Step 2: Buttercream
Spread a line of white buttercream around and over the cake, like a winding road. Then add the green food coloring to the rest of the buttercream and stir in. Cover the rest of the cake with the green buttercream.
Step 3: Sweeties
Using a spoon, carefully sprinkle hundreds and thousands over the white buttercream. Press green jellybeans in a line around the base of the cake.
Step 4: Models
Stick some plastic trees into the buttercream to give the hill a bit of life, and finish by positioning a model car just over the brow of the hill. You can also stick a couple of other models around the front of the cake.