How to Make a Canadian Flag Sheet Cake

This Instructable shows you how to decorate a 9 X 13" sheet cake with an adapted Canadian flag design using icing and coloured sugar. The ingredients used here are inexpensive, but it will take some time and patience to get the design to look good - and you should make it the day ahead of when you will serve it.

Note: The actual Canadian flag is twice as long as it is tall, and each red bar is approximately as wide as 1/4 of the flag. Since the cake only 13" wide, rather than 18", the bars have been narrow to represent the idea of the flag.

Step 1 What You Will Need

1 - 9 X 13 " (3.5Litre) sheet cake of your choice in flavour (the example here uses a rainbow chip cake made from a boxed mix)

1lb (or 450-500g) tub of icing (or the equivalent amount of homemade royal or buttercream frosting)

Approximately 4oz by weight (120g) of red coloured sugar or candy sprinkles (found in larger Canadian urban centres at The Bulk Barn or similar stores)

A paper maple leaf template - you can download this image - adapted from the actual Canadian flag - and enlarge it to fit a standard 8.5 X 11" copy sheet

Wax Paper

Fine-point indelible marker

Scissors

Table or butter knives or a spatuala

Sandwich bag (optional)

Chopsticks or toothpicks or similar pointed tools to assist with detailing the icing around edges

Comments

[canida]

Happy Canada day! I agree with Lemonie - probably would have been easier to use your stencil once the full cake was iced.

[lemonie]

As an idea: why not fully-ice the entire thing in white, then dust with icing sugar, apply your stencil, then the red-stuff? L

[Scottishsamurai_545]

I had been thinking of doing the entire cake in white and then putting down the red sugar, but I figured there may be a risk of too much icing sticking to the stencil when I peeled it and some of the extra sugar may have been mixed in more with the icing. I hadn't thought of using icing sugar as a barrier.

[Mr. Rig It]

Looks Good!

[Scottishsamurai_545]

Thanks - it tasted very good too!

[ChrysN]

Looks yummy! And just in time too.

[Scottishsamurai_545]

Thanks - it was very popular when I served it at work today. It's also not that expensive to make.