Hawaiian Beach Cake

1 baked 13x9" cake

6 C Creamy Frosting

Brown sugar

1 baked cupcake

Food coloring

¼ C unsweetened cocoa powder

Orange piping gel

Pretzel twists

Burnt peanut candy

graham crackers

gummy fish

gummy bears

∙ Frost half of 9x13" cake with 1 ¼ C untinted frosting diagonally.

∙ Sprinkle brown sugar on it making it look like sand.

∙ Tint 1 ¾ C frosting light blue.

∙ Frost remaining cake with 1 ¼ C blue-tinted frosting, swirling frosting to create waves.

∙ Place remaining blue frosting in pastry bag and spread along one side of bag.

∙ Spoon ½ C untinted frosting along the other side of bag.

∙ Using large star tip, pipe blue-tinted and untinted frosting on sides of cake.

∙ Tint 1 C frosting green, ½ C frosting red and ½ C frosting yellow.

∙ Add cocoa and 1 T milk to remaining frosting.

∙ Using red and yellow tinted frosting, pipe drop flowers with a drop or star tip onto waxed paper and let dry.

∙ Using grass tip, pipe grass over back corner of cake.

∙ Frost cupcake with chocolate frosting and place on cake like a hut.

∙ Pipe gel over cupcake.

∙ With leaf tip and green frosting, pipe leaves on top of pretzels to make palm trees.

∙ Arrange trees on cake.

∙ With grass tip, pipe tufts of green on top of peanuts to make pineapples.

∙ Place pineapples and flowers on cake.

∙ Cut crackers into the shape of a boat.

∙ Frost with red frosting.

∙ Make paper sail and attach to skewer and place on boat.

∙ Place boat on cake and add bears to the boat and fish to the water.