Transform a lowly sheet of cake into a lively farm themed concoction for your next birthday party. Whether you are baking a cake for a toddler or a farm owner, this cake will conjure happiness for your birthday cake recipient and party guests. Customize the cake by adding the birthday boy or girl's name to the barn. Look for candles in the form of farm animals to give the cake even more personality. Add this to my Recipe Box.
Leave a 9-by-13-inch cake in the pan you baked it in or on its cake board if you purchased the cake prebaked. Cover the cake with a coating of white frosting. Chill it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to harden the white frosting.
Position the cake lengthwise on the work surface. To make the barn, draw a 5-inch square in the center of the cake using the pointed tip of a knife to make a slight impression in the frosting. Add a semicircle to the top of the square for the roof of the barn, using the tip of the knife.
Spread a layer of red frosting inside the outline that you made on the white frosting to create a barn. Add thick layers of the red frosting applied with single vertical strokes so you avoid mixing it into the white frosting, which should remain in place since you chilled the frosting to set it.
Outline the red frosting barn using a tube of brown gel icing. Draw a 3-by-1-inch rectangle located at the center of the bottom end of the barn for the door. Add a 'x' across the door using the brown icing.
Mix six cups of flaked coconut with green food coloring until you achieve the color of grass. Spread the tinted coconut all over the white frosting of the cake; avoid getting it on the red barn.
Squirt blue gel icing using a tube in a 4-inch circle on the right corner of the cake below the barn. Fill the circle in completely to make a pond. Add three miniature plastic ducks to the pond.
Arrange 10 miniature marshmallows in a round group on the left corner of the cake below the barn. These will become sheep. Press two miniature chocolate chips in the middle of the marshmallows with the tips facing down. Space the chips 1/2 an inch apart to make the eyes for a sheep. Add three other sheep, using 10 marshmallows for each one, on the cake around the first sheep to finish the flock.
Insert the appropriate amount of birthday candles along the top of the cake above the barn.
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