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A Gumdrop Garden
- Total Time Needed:
- 1 Hour
Give mom, or any garden lover, their just dessert -- a sweet bouquet of edible flowers.
- Materials
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- Pound cake or other loaf-shaped cake
- Chocolate frosting
- Ladyfingers
- Chocolate wafer cookies
- Sugar
- Gumdrops
- Green toothpicks
- Kitchen scissors
- Coconut
- Green food coloring
- Instructions
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Ice the top and the sides of the pound cake with chocolate frosting.
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Trim the top of each ladyfinger into a point resembling a picket fence.
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Gently press the pickets against the frosted sides of the loaf cake.
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Seal a handful of chocolate wafer cookies in a plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin.
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Sprinkle the crumb "soil" on top of the loaf cake.
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Sprinkle sugar onto a waxed-paper-covered surface and, using a rolling pin, flatten gumdrops to a 1/4-inch thickness.
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Use kitchen scissors to cut notches in the tops of the flattened gumdrops to create tulip shapes.
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Insert a toothpick stem into the base of each blossom.
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Make a pair of leaves for each tulip by trimming flattened green gumdrops into teardrop shapes.
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Spear the base of each leaf with the toothpick stem and push it halfway up the stem.
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Plant the tulips in the cake.
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Sprinkle coconut tinted with green food coloring around the garden to resemble grass.
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