The Golf Cake
Every February my family celebrates the birthdays of two family members: my dad and one of my brothers. Being typical males, they don’t particularly enjoy celebrating their lives, especially if it’s in any cutesy sort of way. But my mother and I do! So they just have to suffer through it sometimes… especially since their birthdays take place the same week as Valentine’s Day. For a couple years in the 90s we were particularly fond of making heart-shaped birthday cakes for the birthday boys. I adored them, but I also adored my homemade Barbie cakes my mother used to make for my birthday in the 90s…
The point of this story is that I wanted to make a creative cake for the guys this year, but make it something a little more subtle and manly. So when I came across a golf cake idea on Pinterest, I couldn’t resist! I showed it to my mom, my other brother and his wife for approval–which I got! And that is how I ended up decorating this delicious chocolate cake to look like a putting green, complete with a real Callaway golf ball and matching white/gray candles. I think it turned out rather well, don’t you agree?
As I said, I found the idea on Pinterest, and since I am a staunch believer in giving credit where credit is due, I would like to credit this golf cake idea to the blog where the Pin originated from: Changing My Destiny. This link will take you to the blog where you will find step-by-step instructions on how to recreate this clever golf cake. One thing I did differently was to squeeze out the grass tips in a random pattern instead of in rows to give it a more natural look. Otherwise, I did pretty much the same thing. The overall verdict of the final cake was that is was impressive, clever and delicious! So thanks to Changing My Destiny for sharing your idea!! :)
What do you think? Would you try it too? If you do, let me know how it goes!
Thanks for reading!
