DIY Teddy Bear and Deranged Kitty Birthday Cakes

sillyDaddy loves to build interesting cakes. I don't so much like the baking of them but I surely do like the building of them.

eM and I teamed up to make teddy bear cakes for a combined bday party for J and D.  She did the baking and I did the building.

This one was, well, a piece of cake compared to the bug cupcakes I wrote about earlier and a cool dragon cake I made but haven't posted yet.

One major lesson learned from those past experiences is that applying icing to a cut cake is really tough. This time around I picked up a mini cupcake pan and small round cake pans at the local craft store to avoid icing over cut cake as much as possible.

Here's what you'll need:

• Mini cupcake and round baking pans.
• One box of cake mix.
• One can of icing.
• Food coloring.
• Decorative icing in a can for ears, eyes, etc.
• Chocolate chips for nose, eyes.

I kind of whipped this one together so if I had more time I might have looked for more interesting candies for the eyes, nose, etc.

The arms and legs consist of one full mini cupcake attached to half a mini cupcake cut into a semicircle.

The ears are semicircle mini cupcakes attached to the head.

I made a larger one for J (using two rounds for the body) but I'm afraid it kind of looked more like a mutant, freakish cat then a teddy bear. When she saw it she started to cry and begged her mommy to take away the "scary kitty".

Happy Birthday!

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