Additional Ingredients

To decorate

100 grams	Butter (softened)
400 grams	Icing Sugar (Silver Spoon)
1 tsp	Vanilla Extract (Nielsen Massey)
100 grams	Desiccated Coconut
250 grams	White Ready To Roll Icing (Silver Spoon Create)
	Concentrated Paste Food Colourings (red, blue, green and orange)

How to make Snowman Celebration Cake

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1. Preheat the oven to 170°C, /Fan 150°C, /Gas Mark 5. Grease and line 2 x 7 inch round sponge tins.
2. Add the caster sugar to the soften butter and using a wooden spoon, or an electric hand held whisk, beat the butter and sugar until it is really smooth and creamy.
3. Beat the eggs together lightly with a fork, then add a drop at a time to the butter and sugar mixture, beating really well until smooth.
4. Using a large metal spoon fold in the vanilla extract, milk, baking powder and flour, lifting the mixture in a figure of eight to scoop up the flour and fold it in.
5. Divide the mixture evenly between the two cake tins. Bake for about 20-25 minutes until the mixture is golden and just firm in the centre.
6. Allow to cool for 5 minutes then remove from the tin and allow to cool completely.
7. To make the icing: beat the butter and sugar together until smooth, adding a little hot water if liked to help soften it and make a soft smooth consistency.
8. To asseble: using a tea plate or saucer as a guide, cut one of the sponge cakes into a smaller circle for the head. Place this against the snowman body to form the shape of a snowman.
9. Coat the whole cake with butter cream. Sprinkle with coconut.
10. Mix a little red colouring into half the sugar paste. Roll out most of it to make the hat. Decorate with green coloured icing stars if liked.
11. Roll a little red icing to make a mouth, then roll the remaining red icing into a long thin sausage. Roll a similar size white icing sausage then twist the two together to make the scarf and trim for the hat. Roll the scarf flat and trim to make a long rectangle to wrap around the snowmans neck. Decorate the hat with a white icing bobble.
12. To make the eyes, colour a tiny piece of white icing with blue, roll and cut out 2 circles, then top with a ball of white to make the pupils.
13. To make the nose, colour a little icing with orange food colouring and make a cone, mark with the back of a knife to make the carrot nose.

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