A cake is the perfect complement for parties or a family get-together. If you are in charge of dessert, a flamingo theme can get you in touch with your creative side and create a cake that not only tastes good but makes your guests laugh. Add this to my Recipe Box.
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Find a large, plastic flamingo--like the kind used for a lawn ornament. Bake a large, rectangular cake and cover it in green frosting. Then, bake a few smaller, round cakes. Cut one into a oval-shaped ball and another into the "head" of a flamingo. Attach the head to the oval-shaped body and then cover it in pink frosting. Set this "baby" flamingo on the green cake. If you want, you can pipe little legs on top of the green frosting, like it is splayed out on the grass. Then, secure the large plastic flamingo on top of the cake (you will need to stick its "legs" into the cake to hold it upright). Your finished product will be a mother and baby flamingo, hanging out in the grass on your dessert table.
Do the Bird
If you have some artistic talent, try creating a cake that resembles the goofy bird. However, your cake will have to lay flat, as the proportions of a flamingo do not bode well for an upright cake. Start with a few large, round cakes--strawberry flavor works best because it is already pink. After baking, cut them into the shape of the flamingo's body. Use a third cake round to cut into the shape of the flamingo's head and neck. After assembling all of the parts, frost it with pink icing (either strawberry flavored or white butter cream with food coloring added). To finish the cake, add candy eyes, legs made out of licorice and a black beak (use colored frosting). The end result will look like your flamingo walked right out of the water and onto your serving tray.
Do the Herd
If you want to create a flamingo cake but not the bird, do this instead. Bake a large cake--shape does not matter--and cover it with white frosting. Then, the fun begins. Buy various colored gel-type cake frosting in pink, black, brown, green and blue. With these, create lots of small flamingos all over the cake. Put them into a fun environment by piping on palm trees with coconuts and a little watering hole. Leave some space for your special message, be it "Happy Birthday" or "Congratulations." All guests will love looking at the miniature scene.
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