Erupting Volcano

Name: Erupting Volcano
Yield: Serves 20
Ingredients: 30 cm round cake drum; 1 X Chocolate Buttercream recipe; red or orange boiled sweets; 200 g milk chocolate, chopped; 1 firework candle (or indoor sparkler fireworks); 350 g caster sugar; 2 tbsp distilled white vinegar; 200 g golden syrup; mint green food colour paste; 3 tbsp royal icing; plastic dinosaurs; 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 400 g digestive biscuits, crushed; 4 packets popping candy; 200 g granulated sugar

Marble Cake

Preparation info

Serves
20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Light the firework candle at the centre of this spectacular cake and await the applause.

Ingredients

For the Cake

1 X Marble Cake recipe
1 X Chocolate Buttercream recipe

Cake
Birthday
Vegetarian

Method

For the lava, line a 23 cm baking tray with baking parchment. Have a glass of cold water to hand. In a large, heavy-based pan, place the syrup, sugar, vinegar and 125 ml water. On a gentle heat, stir u