Father's Day Golf Course Cake

[Guest guest]

Dad will drop his driver and grab a fork when you present him with this

well-manicured golf course cake.

And this time, he may even aim for a sand trap.

 

Note: Organic ingredients are recommended...

 

INGREDIENTS:

1 cooled 9- by 13-inch sheet cake

green frosting

white frosting

blue decorators' gel

light brown sugar

1 cup of shredded coconut

6 drops of green food coloring

chopsticks

spearmint candy leaves

pretzel sticks

1 piece of paper

green decorating sugar

3-inch strip of fruit leather

mini jawbreaker or white Tic Tac or jelly bean

 

METHODS:

Bake and cool a 9- by 13-inch sheet cake.

Dig out 3 shallow trenches (for the sand traps and pond) near the

edges,

as shown.

Cover the rest of the cake with grassy green frosting, but coat the

trenches with plain white frosting.

For the pond, top the white frosting with blue decorators' gel, spreading

it with a rubber spatula or the back of a spoon.

Coat the sand traps with a layer of light brown sugar, packing it firmly

to give them depth.

To make the rough, combine 1 cup of shredded coconut and 6 drops of

green food coloring in a small covered container and shake it well.

Sprinkle the coconut around the edges of the cake, avoiding the

fairway.

For each tree, use a chopstick to poke a hole in the bottom of a

spearmint candy leaf, insert a pretzel stick, and plant it in the cake as

you see fit.

For a neat putting green, cut a 3-inch circular hole in a piece of paper or

cardboard, then lay the stencil on the fairway and fill the circle with

green decorating sugar.

To make the flag, wrap a 3-inch strip of fruit leather around a pretzel

stick, pressing together the ends. Trim it into a pennant and set it on

the green.

Finally, add a mini jawbreaker

(or push a white Tic Tac or jelly bean into the turf) for a golf ball. Fore!