Winnie the Pooh 1st B-day cake

One of my closest friend's son turned 1 just recently and she asked me to honor them with his birthday cake! I was THRILLED! She gave me no real direction except that their theme was Winnie the Pooh! With that, may created juices started flowing! It took me a little while to decide on the design I wanted! I went from a giant tree to a honey pot and finally I decided on a scene with just the "edge" of the "hundred acre wood"! Since the party was on Labor Day, I had to start the process on Thursday!

This cake took 1 petal cake and 2 8 1/2" x 11" cakes. I baked all three of these cakes on Thursday and wrapped them in plastic wrap and froze them over the weekend.

Also on Thursday I worked on making the fondant/gum paste features. I made "sticks" for Eeyore's house, a door for piglet's house, the "Trespasser's Wil" sign for outside of piglet's house, a sign for Rabbit's house, Pooh's door frame, bell, "Mr Sanders" sign, and a "ring also" sign. Also 2 honey bees and a hive!

The last thing I did on Thursday was make Royal icing flowers to use on the border. You can see those in the picture above (they are the smaller ones the bigger ones were "dots" I made for a different cake)

Monday morning I iced the two 8 1/2 x 11's together to make it the height I was looking for.

I sculpted the "petal" cake to make it looked like a clump of 4 trees. (Of course I forgot to take a picture of it un-iced, but here it is iced and ready for the tree trunks)

The "tree tops" were on a 8" plastic plate and I touched it down on the top of the cake so I would know where to play the pillars.

I used a Wilton 233 tip to make grass all over the top of the cake.

After I pushed the pillars into the cake I filled in the holes around them with icing and piped chocolate butter cream up the side of the pillars to be "tree trunks".

After the tree trunks were complete, I put everything into place. I piped stems for the flowers and place them around the cake and then put the character and features on the top of the cake.

This was the best picture I got of Winnie the Pooh's door frame

This is the cake finalized at the party!

I decided to make Rabbit's home even though I didn't have a Rabbit character! I used chocolate butter cream icing and crushed graham crackers to make the "sandy bank" that Rabbit hole is in! and placed the "Rabbit's Howse" Sign above it!

This is the "Trespasser's Wil" sign that sits outside of Piglet's home

This was the smash cake I made for Joel... I am not proud of it but decided I would share it anyway! ha ha!

Comments

Parson's Wife said…

Way to use those creative thoughts!

September 6, 2011 at 2:20 PM

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