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Monday, January 11, 2010

SURFBOARD CAKE SuMmEr PaRtY. PART TWO

What else says summer more than a Surfboard?....So thats what we decided to make for the cake. 
I made two vanilla slab cakes...





Next, with the help from my wonderful husband, I cut out a template of a surfboard, out of kitchen paper then layed it over the two slabs.  I cut around the template so I had the shape of a board out of cake...




Almost done...i used a butter icing with yellow food colouring to cover the cake.  I then used chocolate icing to do the stringer and write Aloha.  For the stars I used a cookie cutter.  I very, very gently placed it where I wanted the stars to go so I had an outline in the icing.  With darker yellow icing, i then piped around the outline.  To finish off the stars I wanted to use coloured sugar but I couldnt find any in the supermarket  (ive since been told how to make it...place sugar in a bag with food colouring and shake...so easy) So I just used yellow jelly crystls which worked just fine.


The PARTY TABLE!  For the finishing touches I placed some arrowroot biscuits into a food processor and processed them until they resembled sand.  I sprinkled this all around the base of the cake....It was a hit.

2 comments:

  1. Great cake and very cool theme!
    I want a party to organise now... I'm sure I can think of an excuse!

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  2. Thanks Ellen, It was fun! We had so much fun organising it as well as on the day...sure, you can think of an excuse to have a party...any excuse will do. We had a 'summer' party just because it was summer...no birthday or anything like that is needed in our house to have a party. Go on...do it, you'll have fun! LOL

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