It can be anything the cheflets like – they may need inspiration –
a word of warning though, it shouldn't be too ambitious – it needs
to succeed.
To
explain myself the example I've chosen is The
Yellow Brick Road from The Wizard of Oz.
The road shown is made from marzipan, rolled quite thinly. The
beauty of using marzipan is that if you do make a mess of it you just
roll it into a ball and begin again. A small tip – a dusting of
icing sugar on your surface will help. Give each cheflet a cake
board together with a quarter of the block of marzipan and a rolling
pin – their road should be rolled directly onto the cake board.
They could reproduce the road shown or they could make a crazy
paving, using circles made with cutters of different sizes. The road
doesn't have to be straight, there are no rules.
When each portion of road is completed the boards should be placed on
the paper table cloth, wherever they like. My only suggestion is
that each board has roughly the same amount of space surrounding it.
The cheflets next job is to weigh 25g of desiccated coconut into a
ziplok bag – squeeze a large blob of green food colouring into the
coconut, carefully expel the air and seal the bag. Work the
colouring into the coconut – this will take a minute or two,
rubbing the bag between your hands – the coconut absorbs the
colouring and the more you work it the more even a colour will
result.
The
table cloth on your shopping list IS
the base for the dessert – no bowls, no plates – fingers only
but, you might want to make sure you've plenty of serviettes/napkins
or, if you must, then spoons or forks – it defeats the object of
sticky fingers and I can testify that when I did do this, the
grown-ups loved it too.
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