Our church is holding a 85th BD party for our Founding Pastor. He is now home from Kenya,Africa where he has a pastorial traning school and teaches, houses and feeds 60 Pastors at a time in Africa. He also helps in MANY other areas over there. Like orphans, hospitals, and also getting a TV station to air christian broadcasting. Just to name a few. He never takes credit for this stuff but gives God the credit (which is right) but We wanted to celebrate Africa with him. I need to feed about 175 people and was just asked to do it lastnight. And Africa is the theme. Any Ideas? or suggestions? I want it to be nice but nothing OVERLY fancy. Thanks a bunch.

Just bringing this to the top...Hopefully you will get lots of ideas...

OK I realy need some help on this one. My ideas so far are the Kenya, Africa flag. Or outline of Africa. See I told you I needed help! PPPPPLLLLLEEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEE!!!!!!!

why not find some symbols that represent Kenya and mold it using fondant or do a buttercream transfer??

why not do an african saffari type theme. You can do a pride of lions sitting around a watering hole. With a man sitting there with his bible. hope that makes sense.

Thank you. At least it get's my brain out of netural! I did find a few things I could do a BCT and I like the lion thing. OK Any one else care to help?

How about doing animal print on the edges or sides? Maybe add some fondant animals like susanmm23 said. Or Disney's Animal Kingdom Tree of Life comes to mind. Maybe you could do a BCT of that.

How about doing a book cake....to resemble the bible and on one half maybe his favorite verse/scripture and the other half could be related to Africa....

Or...do a double layer sheet cake, trimmed in all things Africa and a half ball cake on top decorated to look like the globe...with that part of the country facing the top...make a small African flag from fondant, on a toothpick and insert that right where Africa is on the map..

Just tosing some ideas around! HTH!!

You guys are so much help! I knew I could get some creative ideas from you. Thank you. What about one 15x18 and one 11x15 set at a slikght angle on top of it( like a present arangement cake. Then a 1/2 ball on that for the world. Decorate the bottom colors that are Africanish and the second with animals on it. ???

...sounds like the creative quices are flowing now!! Sounds like a great idea!

Sounds great! Be sure to post a picture when you're done!

What about a cross or bible draped in the kenya flag made from fondant? Although I'm not how hard it would be to get the details of the flag...

Kenya flag:

This might be silly but what about doing a brown basket weave cake? Baskets are a major item in Africa. You could make some beads out of MMF & hang them off the sides of the basket. You could make MMF fruit etc to put in the basket. You could also make a blanket w/ MMF or BC. I can see this in mind! With all the earth tone colors mixed in with it. I love earth tone colors. Just an idea~

Finished ther cake! Huge success! Thanks for all the ideas! Postonf under key word africa. Thanks all

... it looks fantastic!! That is one huge cake too!

This is lovely. Thanks for sharing.

Bunchy