Sandcastle Cake
Make a sandcastle cake for a summertime celebration or to remind you of warmer days during the winter months. Start by frosting a cake of any size or shape with your favorite flavor of frosting. Tiered cakes add architectural interest to your sandcastle cake, although a standard round or square cake will suffice. Top the freshly frosted cake with crushed graham crackers or crushed vanilla cookies to give the cake a sandy appearance. Create towers by stacking sugar cones upside down onto cake cones and arranging them on top of the cake. Finish the effect by scattering chocolate seashells on and around your sandcastle cake.
Piñata Cake
Bake and decorate a single-layer, 8-inch round cake. Create a piñata shell for the cake by melting Candy Melts or chocolate coating in your microwave at 30-second intervals until the candy is smooth. Pour the melted candy into a greased 4-quart mixing bowl and tilt the bowl to completely cover the interior of the bowl with candy. Place the bowl into your freezer to harden the candy. Remove the bowl from the freezer and invert the bowl to carefully remove the candy shell. Place this shell over the cake and decorate it with frosting or candy to resemble a piñata. Serve the piñata cake with a small toy hammer and allow the recipient to break open the piñata to reveal the cake inside.
Burrito Cake
Prepare a jelly roll cake or purchase one from the grocery store. Roll out tan-colored fondant to form a large circle that resembles an extra large tortilla. Place the jelly roll in the center of this fondant tortilla and fold the ends up over the narrow sides of the jelly roll. Fold the two long side up so that they meet on top of the burrito or overlap slightly. Roll out yellow and green fondant and cut them into strips to create shredded cheese and lettuce. Sprinkle these strips liberally over the top of the burrito cake. Dice red fondant into squares for chopped tomatoes and cut small circles out of black fondant for sliced onions. Add a dollop of white frosting to the top of the cake to mimic sour cream.
Rainbow Cake
Cut a round cake in half and put the two pieces cut-side down to form an arch. Sandwich the two halves together with frosting to create a half-circle-shaped cake. Place the cake on a cake board with the cut side down. Frost the cake with white frosting and decorate with rows of candy-colored chocolates to create a rainbow design. For an added effect, before the cake is baked, separate the cake batter into several small bowls and tint each bowl a different color with liquid food coloring. Pour the colored batter randomly into the cake pan and do not stir it. When the baked cake is cut into, the cake with have a swirled rainbow interior.
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