Beaver Dude's Birthday Cache

Beaver Dude's Birthday Cache
Beaver Dude's Birthday Cache Beaver Dude's Birthday Cache

Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday and to help him celebrate I made him a geocaching themed cake! For those of you unfamiliar with geocaching, it is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. My Dad spends a lot of time on this hobby both searching for caches as well as creating caches for other geocaching enthusiasts to find.

The cake features a Beaver Dude that I created based on the name of my Dad’s hiking stick and of course since he is from Saskatchewan he is a fan of the Saskatchewan Roughrider’s football team. There is the international geocaching symbol carved in the face of the fallen log and a compass (in place of a GPS gadget). Hidden on the log cake among the dogwood flowers, fungi, moss and ivy is a nano cache and my Dad’s custom “woodtick” cache container. To make the cake even more fun, I went old school and hid a $2 coin (wrapped in plastic) inside the cake itself and created a little poem with clues for my Dad to find his birthday “cache”. My Dad had a blast finding it! TFL!

Naomi, http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Tea-Party-Cakes/105772839489341

10 Comments

Geocoaching sounds great fun! Love the cake! I bet your Dad love it.

Isabelle, UK, https://www.facebook.com/rosehipbakery

Fantastic work and thank you so much for the explanation on geocaching.

The Cookie Lab by Marta Torres

Oh Naomi!!!! How perfectly adorable

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