A Boy’s Second Birthday Party

Name: A Boy’s Second Birthday Party
Ingredients: Biscuits, as above and recipe below, chocolate version, with grated zest of an orange added to biscuit mixture, and stamped out with cutter in shape, unsurprisingly, of figure 2. Iced yellow, made with icing sugar, orange juice and – no sleep tonight – yellow colouring, and hundreds and thousands sprinkled on top.; Corn crisps that look like bacon slices.; Marmite sandwiches (see here).; Several bowls of de-stalked seedless white grapes.; Cocktail sausages (as above).; Plain sponge cake, iced white, with animals clumsily made out of dyed, bought, fondant icing and marzipan, to form a circle around the edge. To tell the truth, I cannot ice, but I took the precaution of marrying someone who can.; Lemon tarts: following recipe for jam tarts (see above) but substituting shop-bought lemon curd in place of the jam; you need neither to heat the lemon curd nor add water to it before spooning it into the little tart cases.; Cheese stars: following recipe above, but doubling the amounts.

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By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

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Plain sponge cake, iced white, with animals clumsily made out of dyed, bought, fondant icing and marzipan, to form a circle around the edge. To tell the truth, I cannot ice, but I took the