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Hollywood Party Recipe

This fun Glitz & Glamour theme can be adapted for adults, kids or teens.

Difficulty

Prep Time

About 2 hours to prepare

Cooking Time

Serves


Recipe Ingredients


Recipe Method

  1. Bake our basic rectangular party cake recipe.
  2. Trim it level across the top if it has a raised surface, then carefully turn the cake over onto a foil-covered cake board, so you have the completely flat, cake tin base side, facing you.
  3. Cut off a 4cm deep strip from a top long edge of the cake.
  4. Position this strip to slant in an open scissor position at the top of the cake.
  5. Mix a full quantity of white icing, and split it ¼ white, and ¾ for colouring as black icing.
  6. Black icing is achieved using black food colouring gel, available from speciality cake shops.
  7. Really white icing for this particular application is best achieved using white margarine as the base, instead of conventional yellow margarine. Do not buy white cooking fat in error.
  8. Spread the black icing smoothly across the strip and cake top and sides (leave broad white band areas open for ease of coverage later). Complete with the thicker bands of white icing, using a toothpick to help work ease the icing neatly into the areas where the black and white icings meet.
  9. Pipe white icing demarcation lines, hinge screw heads, and wording on the main cake, using a No 3 writing nozzle set into a piping bag.
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Hints & Tips

Now for the rest of the party planning

  • Home-baked biscuits using a star-shape cutter, with glitzy sprinkles and silver balls for decorating any that are iced.
  • Non-alcoholic “Cocktail” drinks (see recipe), served on silver trays by parents dressed up and acting as waiters circulating at a posh function, may be viable for older children.
  • Gold-foil-coated dollar coin chocolates, or homemade Oscar statuette design chocolates (moulds available from party stores and cake decorating stores), would be appropriate.
  • Tuxedo hot-dogs, made by wrapping the lower 2/3 of the Vienna sausage filled bread roll with a double layer of white and black tissue paper, crossing over at the front. Fold the white layer over1cm to give the effect of a black jacket with white shirt collar. A mini-bow-tie, of red cardboard or fabric, slide up like a serviette ring, to hold all the elements together.  Stand them up in rows like little men in their tuxedos, in a red, silver or gold covered open-top box.

For older children, include savoury snacks such as canapés on French bread slices, small wraps, dips and crudités, sticky chicken wings etc.