I would like to make edible trees for my son's b-day cake. Any ideas?!
Answers: The cake is a duck pond with blue jello jiggler water and rubber duckies, so I guess any kind of tree would work.
Edible Trees-- http://www.recipezaar.com/200573
*I'm not sure if this would work, but it sounds like a great idea! I wish there were a picture with it!
You could make rice krispy treat trees. When melting the marshmallows, add green food coloring and shape the treats into evergree trees.
http://www.recipezaar.com/199958
You could also make ice cream cone trees. Frost them with green frosting and maybe even some green tinted coconut!
One more idea is sugar cookie trees. Cut out sugar cookies with a tree shape cookie cutter and bake (make sure the cookies are thick enough to stand up on their own). Once cooled, decorate as desired and stand up on tree. You may need to use something behind each tree as a support or just make cookie sandwiches so 2 are back-to-back and they can support eachother.
Hope this helps!
Good luck!
Well, you could use white chocolate,and mold them.
And then use food coloring..??
You could use brocoli, but that would just kinda be nasty to eat along with a cake, but would work great for a tree. Hmmm...you could take a pretzel stick and put a jumbo marshmallow on the top and paint it green with food coloring...
Use chocolate covered pretzels for the trunks, with large green gumdrops on top.
The biggest one's I've seen was Sunkist Gourmet Fruit Gems.
You could also roll the gumdrops flat (coat the surface with sugar so it doesn't stick to the roller) and do a shape like kids draw their trees... and stick that to the top of the pretzel with hard decorators frosting to act like glue.
Or poke the pretzel in the cake, and "hang" a pointed cone on it that has green cake sprinkes/granulated sugar all over it.
You could make evergreen trees with the pointed ice cream cones. Frost them with green frosting. Or you could use a decorating tube to cover them with frosting. If you want them to be various heights, use a serated knife blade and gently saw them into different sizes.
I don't know how big you want them to be but I just thought of this because we bought a chocolate fountain for a party we had during the holidays. What if you took pretzel rods, you know, the breadstick looking pretzels that are like 4 inches long, melt some chocolate and dip them. Let some pretzel show because it'll look like bark. Then, I think if you make small cupcakes and then push the pretzel up through (not all the way, just maybe halfway) the cupcake, you'd have a tree? You could cover the cupcakes in either fondant (you can buy it in sheets at Michael's, other craft stores or better yet, see if you have a cake decorating supply store nearby) with green and they'd look like trees in children's books or just a thick frosting in any color.
I think the pretzels would be sturdy if you stuck the base of them all the way through a cake. You can also make jello using the recipe on the box for those thick candies. Those could be made as bases for the pretzels too...
Other tops for the trees could be large marshmallows, you could make some kind of free-form fritters and poke them on there, or maybe rice krispy treats! Those are easy to work with, kind of like styrofoam, although they're a little bit of a pain to make. Good luck! :-)
How big?
You can use ice cream cones and pipe royal icing on them to make branches.
You can also use pretzel sticks and royal icing and pipe greenery on them and stick them in the cake.
You could get some green gumdrops and roll them in granulated sugar to flatten them and then cut them into "leaves" and make a frosting trunk by piping it with firm brown frosting about the size of a mushroom stem or make one of tinted marzipan (you can brush coloring on with a small paintbrush or q-tip). The marzipan one would more than likely be taller and more tree like. Depends upon how realistic you want it to look. Then you can stick the leaves in to the frosting or marzipan. Broccoli makes good trees, but not sure it would go over too good with children. It would then be just for effect. You could dip the raw broccoli in egg whites that have been lightly whisked and dip them in granular sugar for effect. Set them on parchment or waxed paper to dry for about an hour. Who knows, maybe someone there will like to eat raw broccoli. Don't cook it or it will flavor the cake. Raw is beautiful and edible.
I make trees with mini ice cream cones and pipe frosting on them to look like trees. However, you should use royal icing so they don't get all mushed up. Google "royal icing recipe" to find out how to make it if you don't know how.
buy sugar cones (ice cream cones ), make your green icing and get a number 233 tip and some pastry bags. Place the tip in the bag, fill with icing and start from the top and work your way down make sure your icing is stiff enough. or just find some candy molds and wilton candy melts.
You can make a batch up of rice krispy treats add food color and shape into little trees. Works great in the shape of a triangle with plain treat or licorice for trunk