Germany Crafts And Arts Kids

• A cake or a pretty tray (or a heavy piece of cardboard              covered with foil)
• White frosting
• Green and blue food coloring 
• Several sugar ice cream cones (the conical ones)
• Small candy decorations like red hot, cookie decorations
• Sugar
• Heavy duty foil
• A small piece of heavy duty cardboard
• Optional: green gumdrops, small marshmallows.

• Make white frosting from powdered sugar and milk.

• Make it very thick.

• You need enough to frost the trees and cover the "ground" (i.e.; the cake or the tray).

• It should be so thick, you almost can't spread it.

• If using heavy cardboard in place of a tray, cover it with heavy duty foil.

• Cut the small piece of cardboard in the shape of a pond.

• Cover it with heavy duty foil, shiny side up. This is a pond.

• Put the pond in the middle of the tray or cake.

• Frost the cake or tray with white frosting for snow.

• Cover the edges of the pond and heap it up a bit.

• Put it in the refrigerator so it won't "slump."

• Color some of the frosting with green food coloring and frost the ice cream cones.

• Place them upside-down on the cake to look like trees.

• Decorate the trees with the small candy decorations to look like Christmas trees.

• Chill them.

• Color some sugar blue.

• Sprinkle it around on the pond on the cake. Not too heavily.

• You can get creative and add green gumdrops for "bushes" and a marshmallow snowman.

• My granddaughter added her North Pole signpost craft see        Children’s Woodworking Crafts to the cake, too.

• We felt like real cake decorators!

• Keep it chilled.