Beside the Seaside - A Bucket Cake

Name: Beside the Seaside - A Bucket Cake
Yield: Serves 24
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: icing sugar, to dust; 1 tbsp cocoa powder; 60 g bag white royal icing; ice blue food colour paste (or any colour, for the bucket); 250 g plain digestive biscuits; 350 g icing sugar, sifted; 350 g unsalted butter; pink food colour paste; sugar pebbles and shrimps; 1.4 kg white sugarpaste; 1 toy spade, scrupulously cleaned; chocolate shells; yellow food colour paste; 450 g golden caster sugar; 2 tsp vanilla extract; 8 eggs, lightly beaten; 2 tsp baking powder; 450 g unsalted butter, softened, diced, plus more for the tins; 450 g self-raising flour

Neapolitan Sponge Cake

Preparation info

Serves
24

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A fun, life-size bucket, perfect for a summer birthday party. Made with a Neopolitan sponge for a full-on seaside experience.

Ingredients

For the Cake

450 g unsalted butter, softened, diced, plus more for the tins
450 g self-raising flour

Europe
Italy
Cake
Mediterranean
Summer
Birthday
Baking

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Butter three 20cm round tins and line the bases with baking parchment. If you only have two 20cm round tins, then make the full amount of cake batter, divide by three and