Makka Pakka by Stacie

We made a simple vanilla butter cake from the Women’s Weekly “Mix” book substituting for failsafe and dairy-free ingredients where applicable (Nuttlex, rice milk, Queens vanilla).

We made two cakes then googled a picture of Makka Pakka, printed it and enlarged it to the size we wanted then cut the cakes from this outline and sandwiched together with icing.

We iced it with a simple buttercream (using nuttlex and pure icing sugar) with about 14g of carob powder mixed in.

For the head we used bought (not failsafe) fondant from Woolworths and coloured with carob powder.

For the lightest colour we kneaded a little carob powder into the fondant. For the second darkest colour we just rolled the fondant ball in carob powder and for the darkest we rolled a ball in a little wet carob powder and also did the same with the shape for his mouth.

All balls set in the fridge before we skewered to the cake.

For the eyes we used flattened balls and then put a little craft eye on each.

The little sponge was also made with the bought fondant and food colouring.

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