Down on the Farm

Tara and I were asked to make a cake for our boys' preschool class this week. They have been studying farming and things that happen on a farm. There was a cake in the recent issue of Family Fun magazine that looked like a farm with a barn and silo. Then they made cupcakes look like cows, chicks and pigs. We decided to tackle this and this is the finished product:
The Cupcakes

The Farm Cake



We were pretty proud of ourselves! It took us about 3 hours from start to finish. We had to melt chocolate for icing and putting the pretzel fence together. We dyed the coconut yellow-orange to make the chick. The pig has starburst ears and marshmallows dipped in pink sugar to make the nose. Orange sugar candies made the wings and beaks of the chicks. The cows had the bottom of a gum drop with red twizzler pieces for a nose and nostrils. The barn is made from a pound cake covered in icing and lined with twizzlers. The silo is three cupcakes stacked high and held in place with a bamboo skewer. Those were iced and covered with twizzlers. Both the barn and silo have cereal for roofs.
Hopefully the little four year olds and their "reading buddies" will enjoy this treat tomorrow at preschool!