My oldest daughter volunteered to make a cake for her friend which would have monkeys on it. My oldest daughter doesn't bake so this translated for me to help her. Now, I enjoy making cupcakes but I only make cakes for special occasions. I have never taken a cake decorating class. I really am not confident in making cakes. I agreed to help her but she had to bake the cakes. This was the first time I worked with fondant and it was fun. What do you think? Would you be happy to have a monkey tree cake?
Monkey Tree Cake
3 rectangle cakes
1 box of fondant
3 servings of this frosting
Assemble:
One year ago........................Tostadas with Chicken and Parsley.
Did you already know...........
-Monkeys are classified either by Old World (Africa and Asia) and New World (Americas).
-In 1949, Albert II became the first monkey to fly in space.
-Most monkeys do have a tail.
Monkey Tree Cake
3 rectangle cakes
1 box of fondant
3 servings of this frosting
Assemble:
- Take one rectangle cake and shape a slight curve in it. Round off the corners to make the trunk of the cake.
- Take the two other rectangle cakes and shape into leaves. (I make a stencil out of paper so each leaf was similar in size.)
- The remaining pieces of cake need to be placed at the top of the tree.
- Place the leaf shape pieces shapes apart on top of the pieces of cake.
- Take the frosting and half it.
- Color half of the frosting green and the other half brown.
- Take one cup of the brown frosting and add a little more brown with a drop of black to make a darker shade of brown. Set aside.
- Frost the leaves and extra pieces of cake green for the foliage.
- Frost the trunk of the cake brown.
- Add a little of the darker brown in different areas of the trunk and frost only in up and down strokes.
- With the fondant, die pieces brown, yellow, green, and a small amount black.
- Shape the monkeys with the brown fondant and add two pieces of the black fondant in the shape of balls for the eyes.
- Shape the yellow pieces into bananas. Mix a tiny bit of yellow with brown fondant then add to the top of the bananas for the area the bananas are attached to each other.
- Shape the green pieces into long strips and line the leaves for texture.
- Any remaining green pieces shape into leaves.
- Add the monkeys, leaves, and bananas throughout the tree.
One year ago........................Tostadas with Chicken and Parsley.
Did you already know...........
-Monkeys are classified either by Old World (Africa and Asia) and New World (Americas).
-In 1949, Albert II became the first monkey to fly in space.
-Most monkeys do have a tail.
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