Torta alpaca

Preheat the oven to 180 °C (convection oven 160 °C).

Prepare 500 g of FunCakes sponge cake mix according to the packet instructions. Grease the pans with release spray and pour in the biscuit batter. Bake the biscuits for 30-35 minutes. After baking, remove the biscuits from the pans onto a cooling rack and let cool completely.

Prepare 400 g of FunCakes buttercream mix according to the packet instructions. Flavor the buttercream with whipped cream flavor paste.

Cut the biscuits in half with a cake leveler and fill with a thin layer of buttercream and jam. Then reconstruct the cakes by stacking them. Color part of the buttercream light brown with coloring gel and spread this cream all around the bottom cake; it does not need to be neat.

Color the remaining buttercream pale pink. Divide this buttercream into 2 piping bags, one with tip no. 1M and the other with no. 6B. Stack the two cakes on top of each other.

Color 150 g of sugar paste beige with the brown gel color, roll it out on a surface dusted with magic rolling powder, cut out an oval with a knife for the face and stick it against the 15 cm cake. Use the two different tips to make swirls and rosettes around the face as shown in the photo.

Color a small piece of sugar paste light and dark pink and the rest pale green, reserve a piece of about 10 g of white sugar paste for the pupils. Cut small flowers from the pink sugar paste.

Roll out the green sugar paste to 3 mm thickness, place a piece of cling film over it and cut circles and ovals of various sizes, these will be the cacti. Remove a piece of sugar paste in places on the ovals so that another oval can fit inside and stick them against the bottom cake.

Roll out a piece of pink and beige sugar paste, which can stay thick, cut two ovals of different sizes for the ears, stick them together and then attach them vertically to the head.

Roll out the black sugar paste thinly and cut two circles for the eyes. Then roll out the white very thinly and cut two ovals and two small circles using the FMM face cutter; stick them onto the black circles. Draw a nose with the food pen and place the eyes in their correct position.

Stick the flowers onto the cacti. Fill a piping bag fitted with tip no. 2 with some royal icing and create cactus needles by making small points.