OK, I'm making my dad a meat loaf cake for father's day. For those of you that haven't seen this before, I am making the "cake" part out of meat loaf, and you "ice" it with Mashed Potatoes. Now I need ideas for decorating. I want it to REALLY look like a cake so I need decorating ideas I can do with mashed potatoes. I can color them and everything but I don't want to use anything else. My dad doesn't like cake, he's a pie man, but LOVES meat loaf so I thought this would be a good gift I could give him that would really surprise him. So get those brains working guys!! TIA
Katy
I saw this on Martha Stewart, thought it was a neat idea. I don't remember exactly what she did, seems like it was roses or something. But you might be able to try her web site, she may have a picture there. Hope this helps. 
I think she used peas. You could use radish roses, carrots curls, and sweet pea pods for leaves.
I also saw this on martha stewart on Monday. It was such a great idea. I do remember she used carrots & cut out little stars or flower and green peas.
Here is the link to that recipe:
http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=recipe3460134&contentGroup=MARTHA&layout=martha
HTH
I am not good at this, but what about the garnishes they make for things out of veggies, radish roses, etc. They would be veggies and they could be taken off if you did not want to eat them with the meat loaf. Plus, you could just put them on right before serving. You could use real leaves--cilantro, lettuce, basil, whatever you want. HTH Be sure to post a pic!!!!!!! Great idea!!!!!
On the top ruffle she has pea's on them. On the side she has little circles of carrots. Hope this helps. Just go to Marthastewart.com and type in meatloaf cake on the search engine. It will go to meatloaf birthday cake.Hope your dad enjoys it.
What about using ketchup as a piping gel? You could put it in a decorating bag fitted with a very small writing tip.
I saw in a wilton book where they used softened cream cheese just like using icing and made roses...
This is all very interesting...ive never heard of a meat loaf cake before....
you could use peas for beading...
I did meatloaf cupcakes years ago as an april fool's day dinner surprise for my kids. (they were NOT amused-they HATE meatloaf!) I got the idea from Family Fun Magazine. It's probably on their website. I did a swirl of mashed potatoes on top. I baked the meatloaf in the oversized foil cupcake cups
This won't help you since Father's Day is now over, but thought I would still post since someone may find it usefull if searching the topic.
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