Fire engine cake - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 250g butter, softened
• 250g caster sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 1 tsp almond extract (if you have a nut allergy, use vanilla extract instead)
• 200g self-raising flour
• 50g ground almonds (if you have a nut allergy, use 50g plain flour instead)
• 2 tbsp milk
• 150g butter, softened
• 300g icing sugar, sieved
• 500g ready-to-roll icing, coloured red
• 250g ready-to-roll icing, coloured grey
• 200g royal icing, made from packet royal icing sugar (use 200g sugar)
• red food colouring
• 4 liquorice Catherine wheels
• 25g white ready-to-roll icing
• 2 iced party ring biscuits
• 25g ready-to-roll icing, coloured yellow
• 8-10 chocolate coated biscuit sticks (e.g Mikado) or mint sticks (e.g Matchmakers)
• 6 dolly mixture sweets
• blue food colouring
• black food colouring
• Lego firemen (optional)