Skateboard cakes?!
Skateboard cakes?
I'm looking for decorating ideas for a skateboard cake. I found the one on the familyfun website. Just wondering if you know of anymore websites that might have "instructions".
Answers:
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
9-inch round cake
9- by 13-inch cake
3 16-ounce tubs white frosting
Yellow and red food coloring
Wooden toothpick
4 small chocolate-coated doughnuts
2 pirouette cookies
4 peppermint candies
Pastry bag and tip
DIRECTIONS
Cut the round cake in half. Trim the long edges of the rectangular cake so they are contoured like the sides of a skateboard. Put a round-cake half at the top and bottom of the rectangular cake.
Tint two tubs of frosting yellow and one tub red. Spread a thin base layer of yellow icing over the entire cake.
Create a pattern for the design by using a toothpick to etch a swirl and stripes in the frosting. Use a pastry bag fitted with a wide, round tip to pipe frosting peaks on the entire cake: red on the swirl and stripes, yellow on the remainder. If the icing is too soft to hold its shape during piping, chill it right in the bag for a few minutes.
For each set of wheels, use dabs of frosting to stick a doughnut to each end of a pirouette cookie "axle." (You first may need to enlarge the doughnut holes.) Stick the peppermint candies to the outer centers of the doughnuts. Let the frosting harden a bit and then set the wheels in place atop the skateboard.