This cake is a little bit of everything that the title says it is. I've made my newphew's birthday cake many many times now. Typically there is always a theme but this year - I think because he is getting older - he really didn't care and my sister didn't have a theme. So I asked what he was really into right now and she said he just finished cub scouts and was now starting boy scouts. So I decided to do a boy scout cake. My sister originally said to just do the boy scout emblem on the cake - yum can I say "BOR-ING!" Ha ha. But I looked and looked for ideas on the wonderful world wide web and low and behold found some fascinating camp cakes. And would you know it - I incorporated the emblem by way of a flag (see 2nd photo).
So here is the "camp site". The trees are made using a mini ice cream cones and I piped on buttercream frosting. The tree on the left in the corner I placed on with a pretzel rod so it would stand up a little taller for a little more height to the cake.
Here is the emblem.
The fire was made with a cut up pretzel rod. I dipped the cut off ends in chocolate so it would look nice. I just used red and yellow buttercream for the fire. The "rocks" are just gray blobs of buttercream.
The tent is made with 2 graham crackers and chocolate to hold it together.
Just another view.
And I finally have a shot of the cake cut in to. Now you can see all the layers I did. This was actually a double recipe of the graham cracker cake and I just sliced the cakes it made in 1/2. Filled those with marshamallow filling and then filled the 2 cakes together with a chocolate fudge filling. This was my Smores inspired cake. It was delicious!!!! I will be making this again - and in fact - I will probably be making the graham cracker cake into Smores Cake Pops!!!!
