Rich's Pourable Icing Football Birthday Cake

Pourable icing made this birthday cake delicious and easy to frost. The icing would be highly recommended for any cake especially odd shaped cakes. This cake was made in a football shaped pan. The store Bulk Nation recently opened in Brandon and they rent cake pans for $2.00 a day. I was pleased with the outcome and I don't have to store the pan!

Pourable Icing Recipe

1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips 

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 1/2 tablespoon milk

• In a saucepan melt chips and butter. 
• Remove mixture from the heat and stir in powder sugar.
• Gradually add milk until the desired consistency is achieved.
• Pour icing over the cake.

I doubled the icing recipe to achieve the desired coverage for the cake pictured.

Astro-Turf

The lovely astro-turf was made by coloring sweetened coconut. 

The technique is simple. 

Just place coconut in a bowl or baggie and add drops of food color stirring until the desired color is achieved. In this case green and yellow food coloring delivered the green shown.