My son is the Fan of the Week...

Check it out...my son is on the front page of the Betty Crocker FB page this week. He is their "Fan of the Week" and is pictured with the cake we made for his Cub Scout to Boy Scout Crossover Banquet back in February. He won that day for Best Scout Theme for acknowledging the 100th year of Scouting. Click on the pic to get to the comments for it and show him some love!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=4849883&id=10081584315&ref=fbx_album

And here are some other pictures of the cake.

As you can see it was a basic devils food cake with milk chocolate frosting that I made from scratch (it was my first time).  The trees were upside down sugar cones piped with green frosting.  We had planned on mounting them on big fat pretzel sticks (for the trunks) but stabilization was an issue for transporting it and they wouldn't stay so we ditched the trunks and just used the cones alone.  He used mini marshmallows as a border around the outside.  Single strands of black licorice define the river banks and we found a beautiful blue gel that had sparkles in it that was in a decorators tube and it made the water almost glisten!  There are broken Life Savors along the river to represent boulders.  The tents are graham crackers (Cub Scout colors used on them) with little mini pretzel sticks legs and black jelly bean feet sticking out.  The campfire was ringed with Tootsie Roll logs, there were red hots for the embers and the little mini pretzel sticks were the logs.  We were going to use red and yellow Fruit Roll Ups to cut little flames from but when we went to the store we actually found some that were tye-dyed and were red-yellow-orange in color...they were PERFECT!

We had a blast as a family working on this.  My son baked the cake part all by himself then we did the decorating all together.  I can't wait to do it again sometime!