LOG CABIN
2 packets butter cake mix
1 quantity Vienna Cream
250g (8oz) coconut
pink food colouring
green food colouring
assorted sweets
licorice
6 Flake chocolates
small wooden skewers
Make cakes according to directions on packet, pour into greased deep 23cm (9in) square cake tin, bake in moderate oven 75 min or until cooked when tested. Turn on to wire rack to cool.
Cut cake in half vertically, trim one half to form roof, cut out chimney and tree from trimmings, assemble cake on prepared board. Cover house with Vienna Cream. Tint 1.5 cups coconut with a few drops pink food colouring, tint remaining coconut green. Coat walls with pink coconut. Make windows. gutters and doors out of small sweets and licorice strips.Cut Flakes into various lengths, place on roof, leaving a small space for window, fill in window with small sweets. Ice chimney with Vienna Cream, coat in Flake crumbs, place on side of house. secure with small wooden skewers. Ice tree with Vienna Cream, coat in green coconut, position near front door. Small sweets and jubes represent flowers: spread remaining greentinted coconut around house, small round sweets represent garden path.
