Bake a cake yourself or buy an ordinary one with plain icing and get out that piping bag that’s been lying unused in the drawer for so long! It may take a bit of practise – luckily, you can put any flops back into the piping bag and try again…
1 MAKE THE FROSTING
BASIC BUTTER ICING
100g softened butter • 250g (500ml) icing sugar, sifted 10ml vanilla essence • about 25ml milk • food colouring (optional)
Beat the butter
