For our Young Women activity this week, we did scripture cakes. This was a combined activity with only the girls, but could be done as a joint activity with the boys. In fact, I got the idea from my mom, and they did it as a joint, and said it was great. So, for this activity, each leader brought a cake. We ended up with 4 cakes, doesn’t matter the flavor. We told the girls to divide up into groups and then pick a cake.

Next, they had to decide which scripture story their cake was going to depict. It could be anything in the scriptures, but we did ask them to stay away from the murder/war stories. For things to use to decorate they had:

Teddy Grahams, Skittles, chocolate chips, pull and peel licorice, pretzels, marshmallows, triscuts, cheese whiz, mini nilla whafers, oreos, and maybe some others.

The groups picked their cakes, were given a can of white frosting, and given an hour.They also had food coloring to choose from.

The cakes were made into 2-d and 3-d stories. Only 1 group actually cut their cake up to build it into something. The results were

:Samuel the Lamanite on the wall. They used the triscuts to represent the stone squares of the wall. The pretzels were the arrows being thrown. Very creative.

Noah on the Ark.

The fish were jumping out of the waves. She even made giraffes and elephants to be in the boat (made of pretzels.) The elephants were my favorite!

The First Vision

Joseph was surrounded by a mist of licorice, and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ were surrounded by a light (of marshmallows) brighter than the sun.

Lehi’s Dream

They built the great and spacious building, the rod following the river, and the tree of Life. They even dyed their marshmallows green for leaves.

Turned out to be a great activity. As each group presented their cake, they read the scriptures describing their story.