Name: Playing Dice
Yield: Makes 1 die, Serves 16
Ingredients: 240 g unsalted butter, softened; 60 g light muscovado sugar; 2 tbsp golden syrup; 3 extremely ripe, large bananas (or 4 small); they should be brown, not yellow; ¼ tsp ground nutmeg; 120 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tins; 250 g self-raising flour; 1 kg white sugarpaste (or red, for a red die); 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 1 tbsp double cream; edible glue, or 20 g bag white royal icing; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 200 g icing sugar, sifted; icing sugar, to dust; 100 g black sugarpaste (or white sugarpaste and black food colour paste); 2 tbsp whole milk; 1 tsp baking powder; 160 g light muscovado sugar; pinch of salt; 1 tsp vanilla extract

Preparation info

Serves
16

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

May lady luck smile down on the birthday girl or boy for the next year having rolled these giant edible dice! To make the two dice shown in the picture you will need to double all the ingredients.

Ingredients

For the Cake

120 g unsalted butter, softened, plus more for the tins
250 g self-raising flour

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Butter two deep 13cm square cake tins and line the bases with baking parchment. If your tins are not deep, make a collar of a double thickness of baking parchment to come