Hiya,

I need to make a golf cake for somebody and was wondering if you could tell me, if I wanted to put a small lake in there how would I make it look like water and also if I put a sand pitt in too how would I get the sand effect.

Any help would really be appreciated.

To make water, add blue food coloring to piping gel. It looks awesome. I think it looks better if the icing underneath is also a shade of blue.

To make sand, you can do several things. One is to use straight brown sugar. I'm not crazy about that - I think it would make the cake too sweet. Instead what I do is make the sand-trap out of tan icing, and cover it with crushed vanilla cookies (I used nilla wafers).

I have one in my gallery. Here's the link:

http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&meta=allby&uname=CakesByEllen&cat=0&pos=26

Good luck. It's really easy and looks impressive.

For the sand, you can use Graham cracker crumbs. They look pretty realistic.

I use the Nilla Wafers. The color is a little lighter than the graham crackers.