Jack and the Beanstalk
N-boy requested a Jack and the Beanstalk Birthday cake.
The dowel rod holding the cupcakes together is leaning against the chandelier for stability. Will it stand until tomorrow? Pray for me.
ETA: And it is on the table. Does anyone have a toy hatchet? Or a giant?
That's quite a cake!
How did it go? Love the cake!
It went well. Good food, fun day.
Nice cake, Dawn! I'd love to know how you did it…I know of someone who might like a cake like that someday. 🙂
Well, don't do it like I did!
First, I think it is obvious that only the green is cake. My brothers thought maybe the house was cake too, but it wasn't.
I made mini-cupcakes and stacked them (tops together then bottoms together) on a dowel rod, then iced them green. I baked the remaining batter in an angel food cake pan (it wasn't very tall that way), then put the first couple of cupcakes into that middle hole. A friend suggested kabob skewers instead … maybe 3 to keep it from toppling? Anyway, after I iced them, I put the extra icing into a bag with a ribbon tip and just streamed and "leafed" randomly all around so it was covered.
I kind of wish I had made it tall enough to tie to the chandelier, and put white fabric/snow fabric into the arms to make the clouds … tying to the chandelier would also make it stay vertical better.