OT: Graduation Cake Idea

Florida Grillin Girl

A TWINKIE CAKE! For all you crafty people out there.

I made this cake for my nieces graduation party last year, and was asked to do it again for my other niece this year.

I visited the Hostess store, bought all this week from expiration stuff , spent $30, and this is what I came home with:



I opened all the packages and started building it. My dining room smelled like a bakery!



I used angel food cake in the middle and anchored everything to that using toothpicks. I bought canned icing to use for spackle, but didn't end up needing it.



I went to Target for the plastic base and columns which helped make the top layer, it was $6, I think. I saved them and will use them again.

For the very top, I used 2 pictures of my niece and glued that on some paper each side and stuck it into the cake with a bamboo skewer. This was after a 45 minute car ride!



Thanks goodness I kept a list of what I bought so I won't have to figure it out again:

30 Hostess Twinkies
16 Hostess cupcakes
10 Hostess Ho Ho's
36 mini-cakes
2-3 pack Rasberry Zingers w/ coconut
2 round Angel food cakes 8" each

All I can say is the kids loved it last time. I hope this years cake turns out as good. Watch out for toothpicks, though!

Photo Egg

That's way cool. :laugh:

bees

Faith,that's looks like such a fun creative idea, and besides who hasn't had and loved twinkies and ho-ho's. Great pics.Randy

vidalia1

Great looking cake. So she graduated already??? Now out into the cruel world...

Tell her we said good luck...

Florida Grillin Girl

Kim, that was last year for her H.S graduation. I have another one graduating next month, so I am doing another cake.

Florida Grillin Girl

I found a closer pic of the cake~ this is before I left the house and had a 45 minute car ride!

Capt Frank

Well darlin' I have put on two or three pounds just looking at this post! :laugh:
Very cool :cheer:

WWSis

What a cool idea!

Mickey

Talk about your sugar rush :woohoo:
Looks good....

stike

that's pretty cool. :laugh:
give the people what they want!

Gator Bait

 
Awesome! Can I get a side of insulin with that to go? :cheer:

Great job Faith,

Blair

 

cookn biker

I bet they eat the heck out of that! Creative idea!

Beli

Faith no doubt, You really know what she likes. Just look at her smile, a picture forever.

Hoss

TOO COOL! I LOVE it!

ShedFarm

Seeing those pictures reminds me of my birthday cakes, growing up. Somehow, one year, my parents got the idea that I had a serious thing for Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets. Starting with a birthday in my early teens, they began building birthday cakes for me out of nothing but Krimpets. Boxes upon boxes of Krimpets were sacrificed each year.

TO THIS DAY (I'm 43 now), they still find and buy at least two boxes of Krimpets for my birthday, and give them to me with the biggest grins on their faces. A couple of years ago, they even included a Krimpet Christmas ornament they'd found somewhere.

They will never find out that while I think they're okay, I've never LOVED them. I've never had the heart to tell them this fact, because they have such a ball each year, tracking them down and handing them over to me.

Looking at your creation, if that was the "cake" I'd been presented with each year, I'd still be asking for it!

Florida Grillin Girl

No kiddin, Frank.. that thing is pure sugar!

Florida Grillin Girl

Gator Bait, this is PURE sugar here. No expiration date needed, but they put one anyway.

Florida Grillin Girl

Shedfarm, that is a crazy story. I never even heard of Butterscotch Krimpets. I agree with you, after all this time, I wouldn't have the heart to tell the parents the truth either. I guess it's too late to explore why they think you love those Krimpets.

Non of the kids ever mentioned liking twinkies, it was me that thought they might like a cake made of them.

dhuffjr

Sweet! I like :woohoo:

Big'un

Great job Faith! Very innovative!