
By BBC Good Food
Fire engine cake
Instructions
Prep:2hCook:40min
Stun a crowd and get creative with this themed celebration cake - details include a chocolate ladder, icing water splash and toy firemen
Updated at: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:56:59 GMT
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Ingredients
20 servings

250gbutter
softened

250gcaster sugar

4eggs
large

1 tspalmond extract
if you have a nut allergy, use vanilla extract instead

200gself-raising flour

50gground almond
if you have a nut allergy, use 50 g plain flour instead

2 Tbspmilk

150gbutter
softened

300gicing sugar
sieved

500gready-to-roll icing
coloured red

250gready-to-roll icing
coloured grey

200groyal icing
made from packet royal icing sugar, use 200g sugar

red food colouring

4liquorice
catherine wheels

25gwhite ready-to-roll icing

2party ring biscuits
iced
25gready-to-roll icing coloured yellow

8chocolate coated biscuit sticks
eg mikado, or mint sticks, eg matchmakers

6dolly mixture sweets

blue food colouring

black food colouring
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