Cake Madness - Day 6

Cake of the Day: Funky Monkey Banana Cake

Okay, this project is getting a little out of hand. I was seriously so stressed today trying to get this cake done, you have no idea. I know I brought this upon myself by picking such tedious cakes, but honestly, I almost had a mental breakdown in Wal-Mart tonight. I was very close to bribing a small family to buy a "Child's Play" bag of candy so I didn't have to spend the $5 just to get the two Tootsie Rolls I needed, and I panicked a little when the check-out lady said she didn't think they made Runts anymore. Luckily a friend at work had advised me that the Dollar Tree had a good selection of candy and I made it there ten minutes before they closed. A big thank you to the Dollar Tree girl who was awesome and got me my Runts (you can't have a Funky Monkey cake without the little bananas). Then one last stop at a gas station to find some Cow Tails and finally, at 9 pm, I was ready to start my cake. You see why this challenge is more time consuming than rock climbing?

The cake wasn't too bad to make, and my husband was a dear and made the cream cheese frosting for me, which left me time to figure out how to fashion monkeys out of Tootsie Rolls. I just had to make this cake, it looked so cute here: It's A Jungle Cake, and since there were monkeys on the cake, I thought a banana cake would be fitting. This recipe worked wonderfully: Banana Cake VI. Seriously, try this cake, it was like banana bread, but better.

I got tons of comments about this cake, and have been called the Cake Lady more frequently. Here are some of the best comments:

• Cake Lady, your kids are going to be so lucky
• Funky, most interesting. Your cakes rock. Please supply the Weight Watchers points values (ha - or not)
• Good balance of flavor, lots of banana flavor without being cloying. The frosting was just the right sweetness. The only problem is that I fear you may have made it too delicious.
• Nice banana base. Frosting smooth, blends with cake well.
• Excellent!!!!!
• Yummy! I love banana flavor so I thought the cake was really good and great flavor. But the cake looked so cute that people were trying to avoid cutting into the monkeys :) 
• Very cute, tastes great. Excellent job. 
• Looks too good to eat
• A+ Tasty and very creative
• One of the best decorated cakes I have ever seen, very cool. Also it tasted awesome!

So that makes all that stressful candy hunting worth it :) 

Cow tail and Tootsie Roll trees, Milk Dud coconuts, Tootsie roll monkeys, leaves of green apple licorice and watermelon Air Heads, banana Runts and a squished lemon Dot for the sun . . . fun