Puppy Dog Cake
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1 bought swiss roll
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2 cupcakes or muffins (firmer is better to shape)
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1 large cake board
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1/2 carton Whip N Ice
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Grass green colouring
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Brown, white and pink fondant to make the features, bone and ball
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Butterfly on a wire
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2 piping bags
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Grass piping tip
Step 1 - Ensure that the Whip N Ice has thawed and place it in the bowl of the electric mixer with the whip attachment. Whip as per the instructions until you get something of a whipped cream type mixture (I liken it to shaving cream quite honestly). Remove two thirds of it and place it in a bowl. With the remaining third still in the mixer bowl, tint grass green.
Step 2 - Adhere the sponge cake to the cake board with a little of the frosting and then place a cupcake on its side to be the dog's snout. Then spread a layer of the white frosting on top to mask any cake and to attach the snout to the body. Cut out two triangles of the other cupcake to make two ears and two pieces to make the back and front haunches and attach these with frosting.
Step 3 - Fill one piping bag with some of the white frosting using the "grass" tip-piping bags are harder to control when they're very full so don't fill it entirely. Pipe up and down trying to make the "fur"-I'd recommend starting on the back of the dog or just practice on another surface.
Step 4 - Once the fur is done, fill another piping bag with the green frosting and grass piping tip and pipe grass. This is much easier than doing the dog fur, although it is insanely repetitive!
Step 5 - Finally affix a nose and eyes and roll and cut out some fondant to make a bone and a ball.