Mini Golf Birthday cake

by Suzette Toms
(Auckland, New Zealand)

I baked a 10in round banana cake, torted and filled it with white chocolate butter cream. I placed it on a 12in square cake board.

Before I baked the cake I had googled for mini golf courses and found some images of mini golf hole designs which looked very much like the letters of the birthday girl's name. I made some templates and prepared to decorate the cake.

I coloured some MM fondant an pale brown and used a brick impression mat to make it look like a wall. I cut a strip high enough and long enough to cover right around the side of the cake. I then coloured some MM fondant green and rolled it out to a diameter of approx 12in. I used the pointed end of a leave shaped cutter to create the 'grass like' edge and placed the green icing on the top of the cake.

I used the templates i made earlier and cut out the base of each mini golf hole from a bright green MM fondant and placed them in order on the cake securing them with a damp brush. I used the templates a second time to cut some more of the pale brown fondant to make the course hole edges and stuck these in place with a little water too. I used the back of a knife to make imprints in the edges to make them look like blocks or bricks.

I used the end of a paint brush to make the holes and made some mini golf clubs and balls out of MM fondant too. I also made some different coloured flags using fondant and dried spagetti and placed one at each hole. I cut small circles of light brown fondant and cut these in half to make the paths between the course holes. I finished with bright coloured lettering and flowers.