The great thing about making a birthday playhouse cake is there are so many different decorating options. You can decorate it like a log cabin, a bounce house or even the house you live in. There is no standard way that a playhouse is supposed to look, so ask the birthday child for input as you decorate. Or, you can use the child's favorite colors and characters and then present it as a surprise.
Instructions
1. Make three 8-by-8-inch sheet cakes that are approximately 4 inches deep. Put them all on cooling racks upside down. Add two drops of green food coloring to 2 cups of vanilla icing and use it to generously ice your cake board.
2. Place one of the cakes on the board, centering it. Ice the top of the cake only with any flavor of icing. Then place a second cake directly on top of it, using the icing to stick the pieces together.
3. Cut the third cake in half diagonally so that you have two triangular cakes. Flip them so that the longest edge is facing down and the 90-degree angle of the triangle is facing up. Frost the top edge of the second cake and place the triangles across it widthwise, one behind the other, to form the house's roof.
4. Center these pieces so that the front of one meets the front edge of the square cakes and the back of the other meets their back edge. Then, move the triangles to the left or right as needed so the roof has the same amount of overhang on each side.
5. Frost the sides, front and back of the cake in the color you'd like the house's paint to be. Then frost the roof with chocolate icing.
6. Decorate the house further however you'd like. One suggestion is to break a Hershey bar in half widthwise and use half of it for the door. Break the other half into the individual rectangles and use them as stepping stones to lead up to the house. Make shingles out of mini pretzels by laying them on the roof with the curved parts facing downward. Finally, draw windows using a frosting bag and tips.
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