Tonight is our big Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet and every year we do a dessert contest. Brady came up with the idea to enter a cake into the category “Campiest”. He quickly, and very proudly, came up with the name “Crazy for Camping”. We sat and brainstormed on how we could decorate it and came up with some really cool ideas! Here are some photos from start to finish. We had so much fun being in the kitchen together, baking and getting messy.
***Since everyone was asking “how did you do that?” or “what are those made from?”, here is an explanation of the cake in detail.
I doubled a batch of white cake mix and baked it in a 13×9 pan with straight sides. Once it cooled i took a long knife and cut the top off to make it flat. I also used wax paper in the bottom so it would come out cleanly when inverted onto the base that I constructed out of cardboard and foil.
The whole cake was iced with green dyed vanilla icing, except for the stream which was blue dyed icing.
The trees are sugar ice cream cones smeared with icing then we took a knife and pushed it lightly all over the cone to make the “points”
The grass is shredded coconut dyed green then chopped up finely in a food processor.
The rocks ARE edible (that was the big talk of all the desserts!) They are just milk chocolate candies and I found a tub of them at Wal Mart on the candy aisle. They look almost too real, people were asking if they could eat them.
The tent is graham crackers smeared with orange dyed icing then leaned together with a stick pretzel for the top and supports.
The campfire is brown sugar for the dirt, chocolate covered peanuts for the rocks and stick pretzels broke in half for the firewood. The flame is just a dab of orange icing.
For the final touch we stuck 2 mini marshmallows on some stick pretzels
I don’t ever attempt stuff like this in the kitchen so Brady and I were both shocked we came up with this whole thing and actually pulled it off, haha!
by krmac
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