Fire engine cake

Name: Fire engine cake
Prep time: 2 h
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 2 h 40 min
Cuisine: European, British
Ingredients: 250g butter, softened; 250g caster sugar; 4 large eggs; 1 tsp almond extract(if you have a nut allergy, use vanilla extract instead); 200g self-raising flour; 50g ground almond(if you have a nut allergy, use 50g plain flour instead); 2 tbsp milk; 150g butter, softened; 300g icing sugar, sieved; 500g ready-to-roll icing, coloured red; 250g ready-to-roll icing, coloured grey; 200g royal icing, made from packet royal icing sugar (use 200g sugar); red food colouring; 4 liquoriceCatherine wheels; 25g white ready-to-roll icing; 2 iced party ring biscuits; 25g ready-to-roll icing, coloured yellow; 8-10 chocolatecoated biscuit sticks (e.g Mikado) or mint sticks (e.g Matchmakers); 6 dolly mixture sweets; blue food colouring; black food colouring; Legofiremen (optional)