Let Them Eat....Salad?!?!

When my friend Emily asked me to make a birthday cake for her younger sister, of course I said yes! Emily and her parents were unsure of what kind of cake they wanted me to make, but after some thought, they came up with a pretty clever idea! Emily's sister actually doesn't really enjoy eating cake, so they thought to disguise the cake as her favourite meal - a salad!

Having a very specific idea of what a salad cake should look like in mind, I got started on what was sure to be a tedious cake job. Here are some pictures of the process as well as the final product.













The cake itself is meant to be a table with a tablecloth draped over it. On the tabletop, there's a wooden salad bowl with matching salad tongs, a napkin, and a "Happy Birthday" placecard (in keeping with the whole table theme!). In the wooden salad bowl, I put a mix of several different kinds of individually hand crafted and painted lettuce leaves, a sliced grilled chicken breast, red and orange peppers and some crunchy noodles!

They LOVED it!

I pretty much say this with every new cake that I make (but it's always true!), but this was one of my favourite cakes to make! Despite it being a terribly time consuming process, the end result was just too funny!

Since the cake looks like a salad, the caloric value per slice is significantly less...right??