Fun Cakes for Birthdays and More

by Teresa McEntire | More from this Blogger

09 Aug 2006 10:31 AM

Sherry Holetzky in Kid's Crafts has recently shared some fun cake ideas that you can make with your kids. I thought I would add a few of my own that my kids and I have enjoyed making together.

Winnie the Pooh

This Winnie the Pooh Cake is fairly simple to make but looks almost too cute too eat. You will need: white frosting 3 cupcakes 1 round cake yellow and red food coloring black decorating gel

Directions: 1. Cut the top off of the one cupcake and put it upside down in the center of the cake for the nose. Place the other two cupcakes next to the head for the ears. 2. Add yellow food coloring to your frosting. Frost the entire cake yellow. 3. Mix a drop of red food coloring in some white frosting to make the tongue. 4. Use the black decorating gel to add the eyes, eyebrows, and triangle nose.

Ladybug

Ladybugs are my daughter's favorite and she loved this cute cake. You will need: 1 chocolate cake mix white frosting 4-5 large black gumdrops 4-5 small black gumdrops 1 large red gumdrop red food coloring (I recommend Wilton for getting true red) red shoestring licorice 2 chocolate coins

Directions: 1. Bake the cake in a 2-quart round casserole dish. Grease and flour the dish for easy removal of the cake. It should take about 5 minutes more than baking it in a 9x13 pan. Check with a toothpick to see if the cake is done. 2. After the cake is cool put it in the freezer. When frozen take it out and frost 1/3 of the cake white and 2/3 red. 3. Use the chocolate coins for eyes, put a dab of white frosting and top it with the end of a black gumdrop cut off. 4. Use shoestring licorice for the antennae and the mouth and the bottom half of a red gumdrop for the nose. 5. To make the spots on the ladybug roll the gumdrops flat with a rolling pin and place them on the cake.

Elmo

To make a great cake featuring the face of Elmo you will need: 1 round cake (or 2 if you want to make a double cake to feed more people) white frosting red (Wilton is the best for getting real red) and yellow food coloring 3 chocolate marshmallow puff cookies (the kind with a cookie, marshmallow on top, with chocolate frosting around it) cocoa or chocolate frosting

Directions: 1. Freeze the cake before frosting. Then frost the entire cake white. Use a thin layer on top to seal in the crumbs and more on the side. 2. Then use red frosting to make Elmo's head. You can make the Elmo face large enough to cover the entire top of the cake or just part of it. 3. Frost two of the marshmallow cookies white and one orange (mix 1 drop red and 2 drops yellow food coloring). When the frosting has set up place the eyes and nose on the cake. 4. Mix some cocoa in the white frosting to make chocolate or use store-bought chocolate frosting to make Elmo's mouth and eyeballs on top of the two white cookies.

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Teresa McEntire grew up in Utah the oldest of four children. She currently lives in Kuna, Idaho, near Boise. She and her husband Gene have been married for almost ten years.

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