Happy Lion Birthday Cake - Recipes | Primary Times

Ingredients

• 250g pack unsalted butter
• 50ml whole milk
• 150g whole natural yogurt
• ½ tsp vanilla paste or extract
• 3 large eggs
• 250g white caster sugar
• 300g self-raising flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 200g unsalted butter, very well softened
• 300g icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
• 2 tsp whole milk
• 2 heaped tbsp raspberry jam (or lemon curd)
• 25cm cake board, or cake plate
• yellow or orange food colouring paste ( we used Sugarflair Egg Yellow)
• about 350g white sugar paste
• a few strands of spaghetti, snipped into finger lengths
• a little icing sugar, sifted, for rolling out
• 2 liquorice Catherine wheels with blue middles
• about 2 tsp chocolate sprinkles