This cake has an amusing story about it. My son was transferred to a new school this year because they moved his program to another campus. As part of that, we met with the new principal before the school year started. During the meeting where we were mostly talking about my son, my brings up that I had to finish the groom's cake that I was working on for the next day (the Saint's football helmet cake). The principal got excited to hear I did cakes because she had a shower to provide dessert for in a couple of weeks. She asked if I did cheesecakes. I told her I certainly did, and that will lead to my next entry, as you will see. Meanwhile, she also wanted me to do a birthday cake for her son.
The get together for her adult son was going to be a movie night. She told me a little bit about him so that I could come up with some ideas. One of the more amusing items was that he we extremely proud of the grass in his back yard. He spent a lot of time babying it and watering it and it was a point of amusement with the family as well. I decided to combine as many elements of that as I could. The idea I came up with was the movie clapper board. I considered a movie reel, but thought this would be better. I originally was going to call the movie on the board "Midlife Dawning," but his mother said that he was a little sensitive about that, so I instead pulled on the grass story and called it "Backyard Green Acres." In the Take box, I put his age.
It's been a while since I made this one, but I believe he had wanted a yellow cake with coconut. I thought putting coconut flake on the outside would make it extremely hard to decorate, so I got some coconut flavoring from the cake store and mixed it in to the butter cream icing. It tasted great, and they loved the flavor. The black part of the cake was a little bit of fondant I had left over from the guitar cake since I completed it just the week before. A little heating and the fondant was perfect for this application.
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