Advice for baking a cake of the Scottish flag?

Find a picture of the flag and work out what the proprtions are. Bake a square cake and cut a rectangle of the right proprtions from it, after trimming off the edges first. If the cake is domed, trim the point off, turn it upside down and place it on a rectangular cake board about 2" bigger both ways than your cake.

Make some butter icing and spread it over the top and sides of the cake - not too thickly. Buy a large packet of fondant icing and a little pot of food coluring of the right shade of blue. Cut off some white fondant for the cross and set it aside, in a plastic bag or it will dry out. Knead the blue colouring into the remainder unitl it is evenly coloured to the right shade of blue. Roll out the fondant using cornflour, to stop it sticking, about 1/4" thick. Lift it quickly but carefully onto the cake, smooth it with cornfloured hands to make it stick, trim off excess at the base. Clean everything of the blue colour, roll out the remaing white and cut the cross out of white strips. To get a straight line cut against a ruler. You will learn as you go along. Moisten one side of the cross strips very slightly to get it to stick to the blue.

Cake board, fondant, colouring all available from a specialist shop. To save money you can make a cake board of cardboard covered in foil.

Hi, Depending on how many you are planning to feed depends on your size cake, but if you aim for a A4 size peice of paper you are looking at feeding around 20 - 30 adults. Ikea sell an oven tray / roasting rack for less than a tenner, the tin is a perfect size for baking rectangular cakes and a 12 egg mix fits the tin perfectly. As for decorating if you are a bit of a novice you can buy the ready coloured icing from Sainsburys or you can buy the paste colours and colour the fondant yourself, the only problem with this apart from having to colour 2 and a half blocks of icing at the same time together, if you do calculate wrong you will have to make more and it is very difficult to make the same colour twice without being a variation. As for the white stripes i would just cut them out of fondant and lay them over the top of the blue icing, you will find this the most easiest soloution.

Good Luck and i hope your friend enjoys Scotland.