There’s something about swimming that makes you hungry. It’s not necessarily that you burn up so many calories. Some people just walk around in the water. It just seems like, after swimming, playing or otherwise having fun in the water, you’re ravenous. This year, whether you’ve having a pool party for the neighbors, or your child is having a birthday party where the kids will swim, everyone will get out of the pool and they’ll be starving. Have lots of food ready so that, once they’re finished stuffing themselves, they can sit down and enjoy your pool cake. It’s so easy to make a cake that looks like a swimming pool and the crowd will love it.
Make a cake from a boxed mix or favorite recipe. Although the cake can be any flavor or color, after it’s cut, you’ll achieve the best pool appearance with a white cake or even a white cake, tinted blue with food coloring. Bake two round cakes according to the instructions or recipe and allow them to cool.
Tint white frosting with blue food coloring to make the water color for the cake. Spread a bit of frosting on one cake, lay the second cake on top of it, and, if needed, cut a tiny slice off the top to make the cake perfectly flat. spread the remainder of the blue frosting on the sides and top. Purposefully make peaks with the frosting on top but smooth the sides out well.
Use fudge sticks, sugar wafers or similar goodies to make a hard side for the pool. Line them up, all the way around the cake, pushing them into the frosting slightly to secure. If the cookies aren’t tall enough to reach from the bottom of the pool to the top, make a horizontal row of cookies around the bottom then stand the cookies up around the pool.
Place fruit rings on top of the water to make floatation rings. If you can, add a little plastic person, sitting on each of the rings. Make a ladder with black licorice. Crook each of them into a candy cane shape, place the curled ends into the water, then run the lengths of the licorice sticks down the side of the pool. If needed, push a toothpick into each one to secure it to the side.
Let ice cream soften for about an hour, scoop it out and put it in a square cake pan. Fill the pan completely full, place it in the freezer, then remove it later. Tint whipped cream with blue food coloring and spread it on the ice cream, purposefully making large and small peaks. Or, if you want, remove the ice cream from the pan, place it on a dish, and use whip cream to stick wafers around the sides, as you did with the cake pool.
Your guests will be famished when they get out of the pool and you’ll be ready for them. Serve them up some pool party cake and pool ice cream. They’ll devour it but that’s just what you want.
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