Blue & Gold Banquet – 100 Years of Scouting
Our Scouting Unit (both the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America tonight at the Blue and Gold Banquet. The boys were invited to make and decorate a dessert. The top three would win a prize. Guess which one won first place in the dessert contest? Yeah, you know the one… it’s amazing. I can’t even do that, let alone my boys. Guess which one my boys did? I’ll give you a hint… it has bananas in it.
You guessed it! The log cake won first place (big pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups). Second place (bag of M&Ms) was the miniature camp ground cake. Third place (Butterfinger candy bar) was the giant “100″ made up of brownies and blue & yellow icing. It didn’t matter who won because all of the boys were very proud of what they created. I talked to a few brothers who were more than willing to throw their little brothers under the bus with exclamations of, “He just measured the water, but I made the cake!”
I suggested making Banana Pudding since Josh has been craving it lately. He even got a recipe emailed from his dad which he forwarded to me, begging and pleading for it to be made. I’m all about killing two birds with one stone these days. I read the recipe and felt it was simple enough for the boys to do together. In the interest of full disclosure… They did spill the milk all over the counter while mixing the pudding. The cutting board did flip over off the table and on to the chair. A banana did jump from the peel and on to the floor. (They asked to eat that one — gross, huh?) It was very hard to take myself out of the picture so that they could do their thing. I helped them decide what to put on the finished dessert. I drew the fleur de lis on to thin cardboard, but while Zack was cutting it up, he confused the positive and negative spaces so when it came time for the sprinkles, the design was not as tight as it could have been, but I felt he did a great job. He used both yellow and blue sprinkles. (It’s the sixth picture from the bottom.)
These are the only pictures I took and I did with my iPhone, so they’re not spectacular. I can’t believe I didn’t take a picture of the sign I did (with plenty of last minute help). I’m hoping that someone did and will email it to me. If I am so lucky, I’ll post it later.
For Grandpa Randy, Josh reports that the recipe is a very good one. Here it is below for those who are curious. The only thing we did differently is we had double the pudding and we were unable to let it set overnight. Sprinkles are not necessary either. In fact, they kind of just dissolved into a blurry mess, so I don’t recommend it.
BANANA PUDDING
1 box Nilla vanilla wafers
4 to 5 bananas
1 lg. Jello vanilla instant pudding
3 c. milk
8 oz. Cool Whip
8 oz. sour cream
Line bottom of 9 x 13 inch pan with vanilla wafers. Cover with slices of banana. Mix pudding mix with milk. Add Cool Whip and sour cream and mix. Pour wafers and bananas. Repeat layers. Set overnight.
Posted on February 25th, 2010 by trish
Filed under: Haley Kids, Recipe, Scouts
I love all the cakes…thanks for the blog. I almost feel like i got to be there. i miss scouts. i really do.
I knew you would like seeing and hearing a bit about it. I didn’t cover everything, but I wanted to keep it short and sweet. We miss you, too!
I had to come back and read the blog again. I am having a “i miss scouts” day.
I don’t know who came up with the idea for Blue and Gold but it was such a good one!! and I also love that this was the only rule:
“Each family is asked to decorate a dessert, so if you have more than one Scout, have them work on it together”
I’m glad i got to be a part of the design process.
cuz if i wasn’t allowed to have anything to do with it…um, it might have ended up looking like a couple of logs with pooh piled on it.
I do have to say…I think your boys are way awesome cuz they didn’t need help from the family…they did it by themselves…way to go haley boys!!
This was such a fun family project…we are going to do another cake decorating night as a family. But this time when I am off bedrest so I can at least teach them to bake a homemade cake. It will be a fun family night activity.
and at least then, they can pass off a cooking achievment in the scout book.
Trish you are too nice but I can’t take credit…this was the easiest cake ever made.
store bought pound cake
store bought frosting
store bought brownies from the bakery
and 1 box of fruit roll ups.
the boys loved seeing these few random items come alive as they iced, scraped and shaped.
I loved it even more that it didn’t take more then 15 min.
H. came up with the dirt and ash idea with the brown sugar/ smashed oreos…BRILLIANT!
Thanks again for posting about it Trish!
LOVE susie QT