We are having an impromptu cookout tomorrow at a friend's house, and df asked me to make a cake for it. ALL i have here is a strawberry cake mix and stuff for bc icing.
Any ideas on how to spruce it up? I will have very little time to decorate it. We just moved to town, and it is a new friend of mine, first time meeting of families. Don't want it too plain (I might be able to get cake work if I am lucky!) but needs to be FAST and EASY lol.
Thanks in Advance!
Nichole
Also, both hubbies are Marines, and 3 of our 4 (combined) children are boys. The cake is pink, so that is girly enough! Would square be less frilly?? I haven't even started - he just asked me!
Hey Zmama....from one Marine Corps wife to another (mine is now retired)...but my son is an active duty Marine!!!! (yes...i'm a proud momma)
but for your cake....do you have any of the flags sets they always put on the tables at the balls.....or i have a USMC candy mold with the globe and anchor that i make candy every nov. for their birthday.....didn't know if you had something like that.......or a buttercream frozen transfer of the globe and achor.....or something easy.....like a flag with USMC on it.....
if you didn't want to go that route....i think recently someone showed how to do a strawberry out of fondant....maybe someone will remember where it is....and you could make some of those
just wondering....east coast or west coast??? we're east coast.....good luck....Donna
Hi Donna! Mine is a vet as well, as are all the guys and gals around here. The area is full of nothing but Marines. I actually did a cake with the seal for his bday. It's in my photos.
I am SOOOOOO glad this wasn't a paid cake! He decided to "help" today. I said to go ahead, mix it up and bake the cake. He makes a freaking TWO TIER cake, when we have 90 minutes to get ready to leave AND decorate it! I was just going to put swirls or something on, maybe a beach ball of mmf and a beach scene. Ended up being faster to whip out a rose boquet to throw on top while he attempted to frost it. Bless his heart, he DID try. The one time I run out of powdered sugar, he adds a "touch more water" to the frosting - 1/4 CUP of water! It was so runny that it was sliding off the cake! Luckily I had already grabbed what I needed for the roses.
Oh, well. Gotta get kids ready for bed. Enjoy the story hehe. It did taste awesome, so that's all that counts.
glad it turned out well
and your cakes are beautiful!!! i'm so impressed with your Marine cake....i tried to do a FBCT this year when i did a cake for my husband and son......lets just say it didn't turn the way i had planned 
...but of course they raved about it...and the cake was good.....i just might give it another try next year!!
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