Ingredients

• 4 oz. self-raising flour
• 1 level teaspoon baking powder
• 4 oz. soft margarine
• 4 oz. caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 oz. icing sugar, for filling
• 1 oz. butter or margarine, softened, for filling
•   vanilla essence, a few drops, for filling
• 6 rounded tablespoons apricot jam, for filling
• 2 tablespoons water, for filling
• 1 lb. 6 oz. icing sugar, for glacé icing
• 5 tablespoons water, for glacé icing
•   pink food colouring, a few drops
•   yellow food colouring, a few drops
•   crystallised rose petals, to decorate
•   mimosa balls, to decorate
•   angelica, cut into 'leaves', to decorate

Method

1. Grease an 18 cm (7 in.) shallow square baking tin and line the base with greased greaseproof paper.
2. Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add margarine, sugar and eggs. Beat thoroughly with a wooden spoon for 2 to 3 minutes until smooth.
3. Turn mixture into the prepared tin and cook in a moderate oven (Mark 4—180°C—350°F) for 25 minutes until the cake springs back when pressed lightly in the centre.
4. Turn out on to a wire rack, remove greaseproof paper and leave to cool.
5. Trim the cake and cut into 22 small squares and triangles with a sharp knife or biscuit cutters. Put cakes, well apart, on a wire rack over a large plate.
6. Make the filling: put icing sugar, fat and vanilla essence into a bowl and beat until smooth. Use to coat the tops of the cakes, forming a small dome in the centre.
7. Put jam and water into a small pan and heat through, stirring gently. Brush over the sides of the cakes.
8. Make the glacé icing: sift icing sugar into a bowl. Add water and beat well until smooth and the mixture thickly coats the back of a spoon.
9. Divide the icing equally between 2 bowls. Beat a few drops of pink food colouring into one and a few drops of yellow food colouring into the other.
10. Spoon the icings over the cakes to coat completely, using a palette knife to spread over the sides.
11. Decorate pink cakes with crystallised rose petals and yellow cakes with mimosa balls and angelica. Leave to set, then place in sweet paper cases if liked.

Notes