This cake is lots of fun and it's easy to make.
Lightly grease a 20 x 30cm
lamington tin; line base with paper; then grease. Make cake according to
directions on packet using eggs, water and butter. Spread into prepared pan.
Cook in a preheated 180 degree Celsius oven for about 25 minutes, or until
cooked when tested. Cool cake on a wire rack. If desired, cut cake into a
sort-of island shape and place cut cake on one end to make mountains
Make jelly according to directiions on packet, refrigerate until set.
Pour cocnut into a plastic bag; add a few drops of yellow food colouring;
seal bag and shake until cocnut is coloured. Tint icing with yellow food
colouring, save 1/2 cup for decoration. Spread icing over cake, and top
with coconut. Place rocky road around one short end of the cake; surround
with chopped, mixed jellies. Decorate koalas and Freddos using reservered
icing, hundreds and thousands, sprinkles, and assorted sweets. Push cocktail
umbrelas into cake. Decorate using the things listed in ingredients.
Some Uses For Decorations:
Place icing on Freddos, and
koalas where swimsuits would go, and cover with hundreds and thhousands or
sprinkles.
Use wafers as beach towels, and lie koalas and Freddos on
wafers, placing umbrellas next to them.
Use sweets as surf boards and
place Freddos on them on jelly.
Use stick, string and toy fish as a
fishing rod.
Have fun decorating this cake, practice (and imagination) makes perfect!