For the past couple of years, I have made a special “pencil cake” that my kids got to devour after the first day of school. I almost forgot about that tradition this year until my children asked me if I was going to make one this year. I won’t lie to you, I am NOT the best cake maker or decorator. In fact, one year that I attempted to make a “Nemo” cake for my son’s birthday and when my husband saw it he asked me if I let the kids decorate it. Um no. That would be my unsteady hand attempting to make a cake resembling a fish character.
So this year I made another attempt at cake making and didn’t do so bad considering my not-so-pretty past (it doesn’t help that my son is allergic to eggs so I have to make eggless cakes, making the cakes very moist and hard to frost.)
My attempt:
My preschooler even helped me (lick the spoon, that is).
You can make one for your children too. Here’s the recipe from Family Fun:
PENCIL CAKE
Ingredients
8-inch square pan of brownies, uncut
1 3/4 cups white frosting
Yellow and pink food coloring
1/4 cup chocolate frosting
Sandwich bag
Instructions:
Turn the cooled pan of brownies upside down and tap on the bottom to remove the brownie square. Cut it as shown (A) and arrange the two largest pieces into a pencil shape (B).
Cover the pointed end with white frosting. Tint 1 cup of frosting yellow, then spread it over the middle of the cake.
Next, tint 1/2 cup pink for the eraser. Pipe on a chocolate frosting zigzag and pencil point using a sandwich bag with the corner snipped off.
For an added effect, set the pencil on a piece of foam core decorated to look like lined paper and pipe on a chocolate frosting message.
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DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL TREATS OR TRADITIONS THAT YOU DO FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL?
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