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Coolest Army Battlefield Cake 11
by Elyse
(Massachusetts)
Homemade Army Battlefield Cake
My little brother wanted an army theme for his birthday, but rather than recreate the Korean War (which he actually asked me to do), I figured a Army Battlefield Cake would suffice.
I used two sheet cakes stacked on top of one another with a layer of frosting in between. I also used a small round pan to make an extra cake to stack on the corner as a hill/mound. I made tan/light brown frosting and frosted the entire cake this color. Then, since I did not have dark brown edible spray paint, I just used chocolate frosting to swirl in patches. I then used edible green spray paint to add in green patches. Black frosting was used for the trim.
The dirt road was made up of crushed graham crackers. I used white frosting to write the happy birthday, but just as a warning, it was extremely hard to do. It was the more difficult part of the cake just because the frosting was not sticking well to the graham cracker.
For the barrier I used Hershey kisses and chocolate sticks for bamboo/trees. Due to time/money constraints I just used my little brothers toy soldiers, but I would have liked to have used modeling chocolate or rice krispy treat.
