Our present to him was to make his birthday cake. (I've been trying to take every opportunity I can to make cakes!) I decided on a golf theme, after looking up some ideas online, and adding a couple of my own, I decided that I would made a golf course, more specifically one hole, with a fairway, water and sandtrap. Wilton has this little golfing cake topper set which I bought that helped add to it.
Friday night, I made the cake. I made a 12x15 cake, which was the first time I had used that cake pan. I only make 2 cake batters, but it turns out I probably should have made 3, as it didn't rise much, but it was ok, there was still lots of cake!
Saturday morning I decorated the cake. I made a light green icing to cover the whole cake with, on which I would do the rest of the decorating.
Once I had it all iced, I used a toothpick to draw out my fairway, water and sandtrap.
Next I filled in the water and sand trap. I decided to use graham cracker crumbs for the sandtrap versus coloured icing, as I thought that it would add to making it realistic.
I started on the rest of the grass, using a darker shade of green. I ended up enlisting John's help as the icing was a little thick and my hand was cramping. We sort of took turns placing the grass. He also helped me make the cake look more realistic as I didn't have the grass quite the right way for how it looked on a golf course.
Here's the final product with the added cake toppers!
I was really pleased the final product. It was definitely a fun cake and everyone really enjoyed it. Here's a few pictures from the party we had on Saturday.
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