Calla Lily Recipes 食譜篇 - 島嶼女孩 (ISLAND GIRL)

島嶼女孩 (ISLAND GIRL)

Equipment

2.5 litre (10-cup) Dolly Varden cake pan

2 x 12-hole (1 tablespoon/20ml) mini muffin pans

72 mini muffin paper cases

30cm-round prepared cake board

Cake

3 x 340g packets butter cake mix

85g packet lime jelly crystals

1¼ cups (100g) finely grated coconut, squeezed dry (or dessicated coconut)

125g butter, softened

1½ cups (240g) icing sugar mixture

2 tablespoons milk

Green food colouring

Decorations

Barbie doll with swimsuit

1/3 cup (75g) sugar

Yellow and orange food colouring

55 mini marshmallows

14 white marshmallows

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Grease cake pan well; line mini muffin pans with 24 of the paper cases.

2. Make two of the cake mixed following packet direction. Pour into pan and bake for 1 hour or until cooked. Stand cake in pan for 5 mins; then cool on wire rack.

3. Make remaining cake mix following packet direction. Drop 2 level teapsoons of mixture into each paper muffin case; bake for about 15 mins. Stand cakes in pans for 5 mins; turn out onto wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining cake mixture, to make 72 cakes.

4. Meanwhile, make jelly following packet directions. Leave until slightly cool. Remove paper cases from small cakes. Dip cooled cakes into jelly, one at a time, then roll in coconut. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.

5. Beat butter with an electric mixer until pale. Gradully beat in half the sifted icing sugar, then milk, then remaining icing sugar. Use green food colouring to tint "butter cream" icing pale green; reserve 1 tablespoon of butter cream.

6. Trim the base of the large cake so it is level. Position cake on the prepared board, trimmed-side down; secure with a little icing. Use a long knife and spoon to make a hole in the top, to fit the doll.

7. Spread icing over the large cake. Using the picture as a guide, press a band of mini cakes firmly around the base of the "skirt". Do rows of mini cakes (serve any leftover cakes separately). Position doll into the cake.

8. Place half the sugar in a small plastic bag; rub in a few drops of yellow colouring. Repeat with remaining sugar, but use orange colouring.

9. To make "frangipani flowers", use clean kitchen scissors to cut mini marshmallows in half. Cut big marshmallows into thirds, crossways. Sprinkle half the cut marshmallows with the yellow sugar. Sprinkle the rest with the orange sugar.

10. Using the picture as a guide, position marshmallows "frangipani petals" around top of cake. Add real flowers, if using.

Cook's Note : You can make a lei for Barbie by threading tiny fresh flowers onto a sewing thread or fishing line. If marshmallow petals (and real flowers) do not stick easily into place, you can "glue" them in with a little icing.