A sweet little pumpkin-shaped mouse house that is quick and easy to make 

MOUSE HOUSE CAKE 

MATERIALS

• 2 x 2 liter ( 4 pint / 10 cups) bowl-shaped cakes,
• 30cm ( 12in ) round cake board.
• 1.5kg ( 31b ) sugarpaste / rolled fondant
• mauve, orange, black, golden brown & green food coloring pastes
• icing/confectioners' sugar in a sugar shaker
• 345g ( 11 oz / 1 1/3 cups ) buttercream
• sugar glue 

EQUIPMENT

• large rolling pin
• sharp knife
• cake smoothers
• mall circle cutter 

MOUSE HOUSE CAKE METHOD:

Color 375g ( 12oz ) of sugarpaste mauve Using icing sugar to prevent sticking roll out and cover the cake board, trimming excess from around the edge Put aside to dry Trim the crust from each cake and slice the tops flat. Put the two cakes together to form a ball.

Trim the pumpkin shape: cutting 2cm ( ¾ in ) deep into the cake from top to bottom to mark eight sections. Trim the cakes to create eight grooves, then spread buttercream over the top.

Color then roll out 1kg ( 2lb ) of orange sugarpaste and cover the cake, smoothing around the ball shape and into the grooves, Stretch out the pleats around the base and tuck the sugarpaste underneath, or cut away the pleats and smooth the joins closed.

Use a cake smoother to smooth the cake's surface. Remove the sugarpaste from the windows by cutting small circles. Color 15g (1/2 oz ) of sugarpaste black, thinly roll it out, and cut circles to slot in the openings Colour 45g(1 ½ oz)of sugar paste golden brown to make the mice. Using 15g(1/2 oz) model a teardrop-shaped head, turning up the point slightly for the muzzle Indent the eye sockets using your finger, then stick at a window with sugar glue, holding for a moment until secure. Make another mouse head and mark an open mouth with a knife.

Model brown, flattened teardrop-shaped ears Kniead orange and golden brown together to make tiny teardrop shapes for the center of each ear and make small shaped noses Roll black eyes Stick in position. Create brown teardrop-shaped paws flatten them slightly then make three small cuts at the rounded end Roll tapering shapes for the tails.

Color the remaining sugarpaste green. Roll tapering sausage shapes for the stakes including a thick stalk for the top of the pumpkin and stick them in place Make flattened leaf shapes, pressing down with your finger to create the leal edges, then use a knife to mark the center vein. Model a small sausage of mauve sugarpaste for the base of the chimney and the cone-shaped top, then slot it into a hole in the side of the pumpkin house.

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