Name: Vegetable Plot
Yield: Serves 15-20
Ingredients: few pieces of spaghetti; edible glaze spray (optional); Christmas red food colour paste; Christmas green food colour paste; claret food colour paste; grape violet food colour paste; 50 g sugarpaste; 35 g sugarpaste; 75 g sugarpaste; short piece of green cotton; 200 g unsalted butter, softened; unsalted butter, for the tin; 1 X Spiced Apple Cake batter; edible glue; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 boxes Matchmakers; icing sugar, to dust; 2 tubs chocolate vermicelli; 25 g sugarpaste; brown food colour paste; 300 g icing sugar, sifted; peach/orange food colour paste; mint green food colour paste; 500 g ready-made teddy bear-brown sugarpaste

Preparation info

Serves
15-20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

A perfectly ordered miniature vegetable garden, sprouting an abundance of vegetables in neat rows. Each year I try, but mine has never looked anything like this to date... This is an ideal cake for a keen (or like me, aspiring) gardener. All the vegetables can be made weeks ahead and arranged on the cake on the day.

Ingredients

For the Cake

unsalted butter, for the tin
1 X Spiced Apple Cake batter

Method

To Bake

Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Butter a 25cm square cake tin and line the base with baking parchment. Pour the cake batter into the tin and