|
Canku
Ota
|
|
(Many
Paths)
|
An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
|
|
July
31, 2004
- Issue 118
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fun
Summer Cakes
|
|
|
Want to get some grins from your friends
and family? Try these fun cakes!
|
|
Pail of Sand Cake
|
Ingredients: |
|
- 1 baked 8-inch round
cake
- 1 8- to 9-cup capacity
new plastic sand pail
- 24 oz. unsweetened applesauce
(or 1 3-oz. package pudding, prepared)
- 1 cup crushed graham
crackers or cookies
- Shell candies
- 1 plastic shovel
|
|
Directions: |
Step 1: |
Cut the cake into
1-inch slices. Fit the slices into the pail, alternating
layers of cake with applesauce or pudding, ending with
applesauce. |
|
|
Step 2: |
Sprinkle on the
crushed cookie sand and top with shell candies. Now dig
in with the plastic shovel. |
Tip:
When you finish with the cake, wash out the pail, fill
it with sand and let the young ones have fun.
|
|
|
Under the
Sea Cake
|
Ingredients:
|
|
|
- 1 baked 13" x 9" x
2" cake
- 2 to 3 cups blue icing
- Green apple Sour Belts
- Blue and/or green fruit leather
- Candy rocks
- Candy seashells
- Gummy sea creatures, such as
fish, sharks, and octopuses
- Mini Swedish fish
- Sour tropical fish
|
Directions:
|
Step 1: |
Frost the cake
with the icing. |
|
|
Step 2: |
To create plants,
roll or twist various lengths of sour belts and fruit
leather before placing them on the cake. |
|
|
Step 3: |
Place candy rocks
and seashells along the bottom. |
|
|
Step 4: |
Finish off your
underwater scene by arranging schools of gummy fish, sharks,
and other deep-sea dwellers. |
|
|
Snorkler
Cake
|
|
Ingredients:
|
|
- 2 baked 9-inch round cakes
- 2 to 3 cups chocolate icing
- Hershey's Kisses
- 2 green LifeSavers Gummies
- 2 blue M&Ms
- 1 piece red shoestring licorice
- 1 orange gumdrop
- New snorkel and diving mask,
washed with soap and water
|
|
Directions:
|
Step 1:
|
Layer and frost
the cakes. |
|
|
Step 2:
|
Unwrap the Kisses
and place them around the top for hair. |
|
|
Step 3:
|
Add the LifeSavers
and M&Ms for eyes, a licorice mouth, and a gumdrop
nose. |
|
|
Step 4:
|
Remove or unfasten
the strap on the diving mask, then place it over the face
and lay the snorkel next to the cake. |
|
|
|
|
|
|