Name: Roundabout Cake
Yield: One 20 cm / 8 in. diameter cake, for example the Quick-mix Victoria Sponge
Ingredients: 100 g / 3½ oz dolly mixture or Smarties small animals in chocolate or biscuit shapes; cardboard tube from roll of kitchen paper; decorative wrapping paper for covering tube; 20 cm / 8 in. diameter pretty paper plate; 60 g / 2 oz icing sugar; 100 g / 3½ oz plain dessert chocolate; 6–8 striped drinking straws; 30 g / 1 oz butter

Preparation info

One
20 cm
diameter cake, for example the

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

I’ve been making roundabout cakes for decades – they have a lasting appeal as a birthday cake. Unless it’s intended as a surprise, children enjoy helping to assemble this party centrepiece. For a May-time birthday, I opt for a Maypole Cake – simply omit the paper plate and attach streamers to the top of the maypole stretching down to the chocolate animals around the edge.