The difficult part of this Dalek cake is getting the shape right. I found a paper template on the internet which really helped.
To make the main part of the body I made a large flat chocolate cake then cut 4 oval shapes out in decreasing sizes and stuck one on top of the other (biggest one on the bottom) with chocolate icing. I then trimmed this carefully to get the correct sloping shape (the front of a Dalek slopes much more gradually than the sides). For the head I made a cake in a rounded basin and stuck it on with chocolate icing then iced the whole thing in more chocolate icing.
I used red laces, squares of white chocolate and coloured smarties (you could use chocolate buttons) for the Dalek markings, chocolate sticks with marshmallows on for the Dalek sensors and small sweets on the head.
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