Ingredients
1 quantity vanilla cake (Recipe Tin Eats Vanilla Cake)
1 quantity buttercream (Recipe Tin Eats Vanilla Cake)
red food colouring
yellow food colouring
blue mini M&Ms
yellow mini M&Ms
black licorice
strawberry strap (or red licorice)
Method
Grease and line 20 x 30 cm rectangular tin. Bake cake according to recipe and cool on wire rack. Using coral trout cut-out template (download here), trim cake into fish shape.
Tint most of buttercream pink with red food colouring. Tint a smaller portion peach-orange with red and yellow food colouring. Spread pink buttercream evenly over the body of fish, blending peach-orange along belly, as shown.
Position yellow M&Ms for eye with small circle of black licorice underneath. Add a fine strip of licorice above for eye detail. Use strawberry strap for mouth. Arrange blue mini M&Ms evenly across body to represent spots.
Cut strawberry strap into pieces for pectoral fin, tail and fin markings. Press into buttercream. Decorate as shown.
