teddy bear beach party birthday cake

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San Antonio, TX
Updated on Apr 29, 2017

This isn't exactly a recipe. I made this cake for my daughter when she was 6. It was always one of her favorite birthday cakes.

prep time 2 Hr
cook time 30 Min
method Bake
yield 10-12 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • 1 box cake mix (i used chocolate)
  • 1 can white icing
  • 1 can chocolate icing
  • - blue food coloring
  • 1 package graham crackers
  • 1 tube red gel icing
  • 10 - teddy grahams cookies
  • 2 slices fruit striped gum
  • 1 - gumball
  • 2 small square crackers (i used wheat thins)
  • 1 - pretzel stick
  • 1 - goldfish cracker
  • 1 - sour apple ring candy
  • 1 - cocktail umbrella
  • 2 - oval shaped cookie (i suggest pepperidge farms milanos)
  • 1 - red licorice lace candy
  • 2-3 - dolphin shaped cracker

How To Make teddy bear beach party birthday cake

  • Step 1
    Prepare the cake according to package directions.. You can use any flavor cake. I did chocolate because it was her favorite. You want to have a 9 x 13 " cake when finished.
  • Step 2
    Cool the cake completely before decorating.
  • Step 3
    Take one graham cracker out of the package. carefully break it as follows.
  • Step 4
    break off one square piece (2 of the rectangle sections. This will be your picnic blanket.
  • Step 5
    Break off one single rectangle section. This will be your fishing pier
  • Step 6
    Set the "blanket" and "pier" aside.
  • Step 7
    Take the rest of the sleeve of grahm crackers and place them in a zipper bag.
  • Step 8
    Crush the crackers. This will be your sand.
  • Step 9
    Take the "blanket" cracker and frost one side with the white icing.
  • Step 10
    Next use the red gel icing to draw a checkered pattern on the blanket.Set aside.
  • Step 11
    Take the 2 wheat thin crackers and a small amount of the chocolate icing. Put the icing on the edge of one cracker in a thin line. attach the other cracker to the first using the icing like glue. leave the crackers at an angle to look like an open picnic basket.Place this picnic basket on the decorated "balnket.
  • Step 12
    Take one of the oval cookies and one teddy graham. Attach the bear to this "surfboard using a small amount of the white frosting. Set aside
  • Step 13
    Take the small rectangle graham cracker (pier) and one teddy graham. Uses a small amout of frosting to attach the bear to the pier.
  • Step 14
    Take the pier cracker and carefully use a toothpick to make a hole in the cracker in front of the bear. You are going to make it just big enough to place the end of the pretzel stick into the hole.
  • Step 15
    Cut a toothpick and cut a short piece off. Stick this piece into the top end of the pretzel stick and use it to attach the short piece of red licorice lace to the pretzel.
  • Step 16
    Cut another short piece of toothpick. Place it in the other end of the red lace. Use this to attach the goldfish to the lace. This will be the fishing pole.
  • Step 17
    Take the remaining white icing and add blue food coloring to it. Mix the frosting to turn it blue. **NOTE: I didn't mix it completely so that when you put it on the cake the white streaks make it look more like white caps on the waves.
  • Step 18
    Use the chocolate icing to frost roughly half of the cake but make sure to not do a straight line so it will look like the shore.
  • Step 19
    Frost the remaining part of the cake with the blue "water " icing.
  • Step 20
    Take the crushed graham crackers and carefully cover the chocolate frosting with them. This will make your beach.
  • Step 21
    Place the Pier at the edge of the beach and the water.
  • Step 22
    Place the surfer on the water.
  • Step 23
    Place the dolphin crackers in the water.
  • Step 24
    Place the sour apple ring on the water and place a teddy grahm in the center.
  • Step 25
    Place the 2 gum slices on the beach. Lay a teddy graham on each.
  • Step 26
    Place the cocktail umbrella over them.
  • Step 27
    Place the "blanket with the picnic basket on it onto the beach. Place two teddy grahams around it.
  • Step 28
    Place the other oval cookie on the beach by sticking one end into the sand to look like a surfboard stuck in the beach.
  • Step 29
    Place a surfer bear in a standing position near the board.
  • Step 30
    Place the gumball on the beach.
  • Step 31
    Place 2 bear by it to look like they are playing with the "beach ball"

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Category: Cakes
Method: Bake
Culture: American
Ingredient: Flour

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