My brother has been known to enjoy (read: stock up on) the occasional Arnold Palmer, so it was the perfect birthday cake concept - besides the fact that I would be shipping the cake to him. Which put a significant damper on the decorating ideas because I realized the United States Postal Service probably didn't care as much as I did about the cake arriving upright and intact. So I decided to go with an Arnold-Palmer-flavor (half lemonade, half iced tea) by replacing the water with lemon iced tea in the cake mixture:
Round cake (soaked in iced tea), lemon-flavored frosting, round cake (also soaked). A modest appearance but definitely shippable:
Throw in some Arnold Palmer Cake Toppers, decorated cakeboards, layers of Saran Wrap, and it's a DIY birthday cake in a perfectly-sized box:
Apparently it arrived in Rhode Island in fairly decent and edible shape:
Happy Birthday Aaron!
- Arnold Palmer cake -
1 white (or lemon) cake mix
1 cup Arnold Palmer or lemon iced tea (substituted for water)
Oil per box instructions
Eggs per box instructions
- pour additional iced tea/lemon drink onto baked cakes -
- Lemon frosting -
1 cup Crisco or similar
4 cups powdered sugar
1/2+ packet Crystal Light (lemon)
1 tsp butter-flavored extract
2 tbsp iced tea/lemon drink
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