This Father’s Day Cake Would Fit Your Favorite Golfer To A Tee
For an amusing - but delicious - Father’s Day dessert, bake a Chocolate Golf Course Cake.
The cake is devil’s food, iced with two shades of green buttercream frosting. A pastry brush or the edge of a knife can be used to get a “grassy” look. Brown sugar is used to make the sand trap, and white frosting is used for the golf balls.
The finishing touch: numbered flags made out of paper triangle cutouts and glued onto toothpicks.
Chocolate Golf Course Cake
Recipe from Hershey Foods.
2 cups sugar
1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2/3 cup cocoa
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1-2/3 cups milk
1/2 cup shortening
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Buttercream Frosting (recipe below)
Green food color
Decorations for golf course
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 13- by 9- by 2-inch baking pan.
Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Add milk, shortening, eggs and vanilla. Beat on low speed of electric mixer 30 seconds to blend ingredients. Beat on medium speed for 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely. Place cake on tray.
Prepare frosting; remove about half to a small bowl. Add enough food color to resemble dark green grass; frost entire cake with this mixture. If desired, press pastry brush or knife over surface for texture.
Make remaining half of frosting a lighter green; outline three areas for greens on top of cake. Fill in outlines with lighter green frosting.
Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs or light brown sugar on small area to resemble a sand trap. Mark triangular paper flags with numbers to identify holes; glue flags onto toothpicks. Place flags at greens.
A small ball of white frosting or a small piece of marshmallow can be used for the golf ball.
Yield: 24 servings.
Nutrition information per serving: 270 calories, 9 grams fat (30 percent fat calories), 40 milligrams cholesterol, 45 grams carbohydrate, 3 grams protein, 200 milligrams sodium.
Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
1 pound (about 4 cups) powdered sugar
3 to 4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Beat butter until creamy in large bowl. Gradually add about half of the powdered sugar, beating well. Slowly beat in milk and vanilla. Gradually add remaining powdered sugar, beating until smooth. Add additional milk, if necessary, until frosting is spreading consistency.