# Need help "designing" a sundae that looks like the sun! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063 "2008-03-20T13:09:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/1 "2008-03-20T13:09:04Z")
Hi! I’ve found myself in a volunteer capacity “in charge” of publicity for a sundae social…and I need help! You guys are always so creative. Can you help me? I need to make (with the help of other volunteers like myself) several hundred sundaes throughout the course of a day. This is a kid-friendly-centric event that is using the sun as the theme and one of the things we’re doing is making free sundaes for the kids (and inner children as well!) A local ice cream company has given us lots of vanilla ice cream, so that’s already taken care of. Is there anything simple you guys have made in the past or can think of, that we can do with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make it look like the sun that won’t cost too much or take too much time to assemble? Something lemon? Something using candies or cookies? My mind is stretched to the limit. Can you help me??? (Us?) Pretty please with sprinkles on it? Thanks, Dopers! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/2 "2008-03-20T13:13:57Z")
Would the kids prefer a crappy sunday that looks like a sun, or one that tastes good? I vote for good tasting. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/3 "2008-03-20T13:20:37Z")
Pineapple sun rays ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/4 "2008-03-20T13:24:07Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Would the kids prefer a crappy sunday that looks like a sun, or one that tastes good? I vote for good tasting. [/QUOTE] I vote fer crappy. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/5 "2008-03-20T13:26:35Z")
I’d buy some of those sugar wafer cookies (rectangular, cream filling), and arrange them around the scoops of ice cream like sun rays. Of course, given that you have hundreds of children, and would need at least three cookies per sundae (cut in half) for rays, that might not be feasible. So use sun-colored toppings: butterscotch syrup . . . um, butterscotch syrup. Dried apricots? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/6 "2008-03-20T13:31:03Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] Pineapple sun rays [/QUOTE] Yeah, like a banana split! Come to think of it, bananas are yellow, caramel sauce is yellowish, if we can expand the color palette a bit, we can work in the strawberry sauce… ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/7 "2008-03-20T13:33:42Z")
Chocolate syrup is the same color you’d turn shortly before being incinerated by the sun. Banana splits are go for launch! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/8 "2008-03-20T13:34:43Z")
I vote for yellow fruit roll-ups as rays. Or maybe orange. Alternatively, put a row of Reese’s pieces around the scoop of vanilla ice cream. --Although this is a bad idea if peanut allergies are a concern. Or yellow and orange and maybe red m&ms. ---
**Author:** ![Squeaker\_Snow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Squeaker\_Snow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squeaker_Snow)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/9 "2008-03-20T13:44:01Z")
Wow! I’m loving this! Thank you so much! I think a good tasting sundae is the goal, but one that isn’t going to cost much to make… I do have a tiny budget, but not a lot. Thank you, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/10 "2008-03-20T13:44:44Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] Banana splits are go for launch! [/QUOTE] o/` Dah-dah-daaa da-da-da-daaa dah-dah-daaa da-da-da-daaa o/` Edited after 3 minutes of whistling this damn tune: Dammitdammitdammit! Now I’m going to have this stuck in my head ALL DAY! And I can only blame myself! Grrrr… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/11 "2008-03-20T13:47:41Z")
[QUOTE=Squeaker Snow] Wow! I’m loving this! Thank you so much! I think a good tasting sundae is the goal, but one that isn’t going to cost much to make… I do have a tiny budget, but not a lot. Thank you, thank you! [/QUOTE] How about just putting yellow frosting faces and rays on scoops of vanilla? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/12 "2008-03-20T13:47:47Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] I’d buy some of those sugar wafer cookies (rectangular, cream filling), and arrange them around the scoops of ice cream like sun rays. Of course, given that you have hundreds of children, and would need at least three cookies per sundae (cut in half) for rays, that might not be feasible. [/QUOTE] Actually, for simplicity and economy, I like this idea best so far. Also, you know those candies that are called orange slices? You could put one scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle and stick five of those around the edge. I’d rather have a banana split, though. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/13 "2008-03-20T13:55:28Z")
How about sprinkling yellow sugar on top of a scoop to give it the right color. If you’re making these in bulk, then speed counts for something, right? I personally think that red twizzlers cut in half would make cool looking rays. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/14 "2008-03-20T14:11:25Z")
I know, [Peeps!](http://www.justborn.com/products/peeps.html) A round scoop of vanilla and five or six little ducklings all facing inward… Man, I want some ice cream right now. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/15 "2008-03-20T14:41:39Z")
For really simple rays, how about some triangular yellow corn chips? (Inspired, oddly enough, by the thought of fried ice cream, while reading the thread on Mexian food). Or maybe you could find some cinnamon sugar coated triangular chips, if you want something tasty and triangular. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/16 "2008-03-20T14:43:05Z")
[QUOTE=MissMossie] How about sprinkling yellow sugar on top of a scoop to give it the right color. If you’re making these in bulk, then speed counts for something, right? I personally think that red twizzlers cut in half would make cool looking rays. [/QUOTE] My supermarket has red, yellow and orange candy sprinkles in the cake supply aisle, and red Twizzlers Nibs in pound bags in the candy aisle. No time-consuming cutting required. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/17 "2008-03-20T15:15:51Z")
Ideally, if I were doing this “high end” and I had lots of time I’d consider using mango slices as rays of the sun. But, that’s probably a bit cost prohibitive and too time consuming. Maybe, you could put down a pineapple ring, scoop the vanilla into the center. Arrange a few long slices/sections of fresh banana, stud the scoop of ice cream with dehydrated pineapple (extravegent and entirely optional), sprinkle with coconut, and top with [smuckers pineapple ice cream topping](http://www.smuckers.com/fg/ict/default.asp?groupid=4&catid=48&prodid=93). That’s a tasty tropical flavored sundae that would look like the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/18 "2008-03-20T17:51:38Z")
Pineapple rings tinted around the inside edge with grenadine, scoop of orange sherbet in the center. Easy. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/19 "2008-03-20T18:13:12Z")
Is this event indoors or outdoors? What kind of floor? What kind of cleanup expectations do the organizers have? How are you going to serve the ice cream? Do you have a big prep table? If it’s outside, there aren’t any mess restrictions, you don’t have any prep area and the clientele is expecting their food right quick — then I’d buy yellow paper bowls for serving and set out a dozen jars of yellow sprinkles and yellow sugar crystal things for people to use on their own. Maybe some yellow gumdrops, too. Doing their own decorating would be lots of fun and would take a little time, which is a big help to parents who are trying to entertain their children. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063/20 "2008-03-20T18:22:01Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Doing their own decorating would be lots of fun and would take a little time, which is a big help to parents who are trying to entertain their children. [/QUOTE] If you really want to keep 'em quiet, you could always use **Brown-Eyed Girl** ’s suggestion but substitute Southern Comfort for grenadine… 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-designing-a-sundae-that-looks-like-the-sun/442063.md?page=2)