Today's post is a little more personal than I usually take this site. It's a birthday party my oldest daughter planned for her son's first birthday; a Little Monster theme. She did a fabulous job and everyone had the greatest time - and the cakes were so cute and delicious!
- The cakes were baked in various sized pans. The large monster is simply a couple 8" rounds stacked with icing between.
- The small monster cake for the birthday boy was one round with two littles. You could also freeze and stack 2 more rounds and after they are frozen, cut out the shape of the tiny little monster from, rounding the top off.
- After baking, cool completely. Stack and freeze the cakes for easy decorating later - or if you are short on time, refrigerate to cool.
- Using the icing tip #233, using frosting to make the furry hair of the monster. Start at the bottom, around the cake and work your way up, finishing at the top.
- Refrigerate while you make the eyeballs.
- To form the eye balls we used rice krispy bars, formed into walnut sized balls.
- Cover the eyeballs in rolled out white fondant.
- Use the blue and green fondant to create and shape eye lids and the iris part of the eyes.
- Push them onto a sturdy, thick cake pop or lolly pop stick - the thicker ones, not a tiny, skinny stick. You would also use chop sticks.
- We refrigerated everything at this point and about an hour before the party, used black gel icing to make the pupils. You could also use black fondant and form a little round pupil. Attach the fondant to each other with a bit of water, beaten egg white or a bit of icing.
- The mini monster cake was made similar, using a regular tip to finish the bottom edge, and store bought little tiny candy balls pressed on wet icing to hold.
