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Woman's Weekly Swimming Pool Cake

- Steps
- Ingredients
Steps
- Make cake according to direction on packet, spoon evenly into greased deep 20cm round take tin
- Bake in moderate oven 50 minutes or until cooked when tested
- Turn cake on to wire rack to cool
- Make up jelly as directed on packet, refrigerate until it is set
- Trim top of cake so that it is flat. Cut around top about 1cm in from edge to represent wall of swimming pool
- Using small sharp knife, hollow out center of cake, as shown, to 2.5cm deep to form a recess for the jelly
- Spread sides and edge of cake with chocolate Vienna cream
- Arrange chocolate biscuit sticks evenly around cake, leaving an opening of about 5cm
- Use musk sticks and licorice to make ladder
- Mash set jelly with fork. Spoon into the recess of the cake to represent water
- Paint stripes of food coloring on to small round sweets to present beach balls. Small dolls can be pushed through Jube rings to represent children in rubber floats
- Spread a little cream on the heads of dolls, dip in green sprinkles (these represent bathing caps)
- Bathing suits can be painted on dolls with nail polish
- Rubber mattress is made from jelly snakes trimmed to about 5cm and joined with a little chocolate cream
- Add paper umbrella