Happy Father's Day

Hello all you daddy's girls,
you know what today is...Father's Day!

Want to make something simple and fun just for Dad?

Here are a couple of ideas that are simple enough for anyone to make, to get the kids involved, or to make on your own.

These ideas bring you two things dads love, golf and being the king of the castle.
First are these sweet and simple golf cupcakes.

Bake up Dad's favorite cupcakes, and let them cool. Pick up some decorator icing from your local crafting or cake decorating store. (Decorator icing is stiffer than the icing you'll find at the grocery store, you'll need it to keep the blades of the grass standing up). Using food coloring, tint a container of decorator icing green. Fit a piping bag with a grass tip (wilton #233) and fill the bag with the green icing.  Press the tip gently onto the top of the cupcake, make sure the tip is touching the cupcake while you squeeze gently and adhere the base of the grass to the top of the cupcake. In one fluid motion, keep squeezing and pull up, stop squeezing and pull away. This will create the look of about 10 blades of grass at a time. Repeat this step until the top of the cupcake is covered in 'grass'. Place a yogurt covered raisin or peanut in the grass like a golf ball. Cut a flag from construction paper and glue it to a toothpick. Stick the toothpick into the grass. Voila, your golf cupcake is complete!

If Dad isn't much of a golfer, you can show your love with this great king's crown cake.

This crown shaped cake pan will take one boxed mix, so it's nice and easy to use. You can purchase this pan for about $15, or you can rent one at your local Bulk Barn store for about $2. Fill the pan and bake your cake as directed on the box. Allow the cake to cool for about 1 hour. For this cake, you can use your favorite white frosting from the grocery store. You will need 2 tubs of frosting. Tint one tub of frosting yellow with food coloring, leave the other tub white. With a beveled spatula or (carefully) with a knife, frost the entire cake yellow. Using the white icing, frost in between the cake tops with white. Frost the bottom 1-2 inches of the cake in white. Press a knife or the back of a spoon gently into the white frosting and pull up in a random fashion to make a textured furry look. Using M&Ms create a colourful outline around the edge of the cake. Add extra embellishments wherever you want, to make your cake special. Spell out Dad in the middle of the cake using a pre-colored tube of icing.
Now wasn't that simple? And, the kids will love playing with the M&Ms making their own colourful patterns and designs on Dad's cake.

Well, that's all for today, I hope you all enjoy the weather and have a great dad with your Dad!

Until next time,
Happy baking, caking, and tasting!

Love and sprinkles, xoxo