Island Fun Cake

Can you tell we are getting in the mood for summer around here? This cute Island Fun cake is very simple to recreate! I used a cake mix, but you could easily make the Chocolate, White, or Yellow Butter Cake recipes I have shared. This is pretty straight forward, but here are the directions in case you need them.

INSTRUCTIONS

1 13×9 cake

1 14×10 inch cake board, covered (I used a cutting board covered in foil)

1 16 oz Container white frosting

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs

6 green gumdrop

1 pretzel rod broken in half

small bear shaped graham crackers cookies

assorted decorator gels

assorted candies (peach rings, gummy whales, seals) and goldfish crackers

1. Place cake on prepared board. Tint frosting blue.  Frost entire cake. Spoon graham cracker crumbs onto frosting to resemble desert island.
2. Flatten gumdrops with rolling pin on a sheet of waxed paper sprinkled with sugar. Roll until very thin. Cut each gumdrop into leaf shape with knife. Place pretzel rod half in center of island. Carefully attach leaves to top with frosting, or by squishing together to form a palm tree.
3. Decorate with bear shaped cookies with decorator gels. Arrange bear shaped cookies, candies and graham crackers on cake as desired.