Teapot Birthday Cake
I wanted to make a special cake for my Mom’s Birthday and I thought how much my Mom enjoys having tea parties with her granddaughters. This teapot cake turned out so cute and was super easy to make in a pinch using the Wilton Classic Wonder Mold.
I baked one Devil’s Food cake box mix in the Classic Wonder Mold. While the cake was baking, I found a bone white teapot in my cabinet. The teapot lid was the perfect size to top the cake. For this cake I chose simple white, but if you have a patterned teapot, you could be inspired to decorate the cake based on the color or pattern of your teapot.
I studied the teapot and sketched out the shape for the spout and handle on paper. Then cut it out and traced it onto yellow card stock twice. (Two times because I wanted to place toothpicks in between the sheets and then stick them into the side of the cake to hold it in place)
I melted some yellow chocolate melting wafers in a squeeze bottle and outlined a bunch of five petal flowers on wax paper. Once the chocolate sets and has cooled, they are very easy to handle to place on a cake.
Once the cake had cooled, I frosted it with my homemade icing and added a little more icing at the top to hold the ceramic lid in place. The cardstock spout and handle were placed and the candy decorations were added to complete the teapot.
Time for tea! Happy Birthday Mom!
A Cinderella Birthday
My little girl turned 3 and now she knows exactly what she wants…a Cinderella Birthday Cake! This is how I made a special Cinderella birthday party for my little princess.
The plan is to make a doll birthday cake, but I wanted to make another sweet treat that fit the Cinderella theme. I thought sugar cookies would be perfect, cut out and decorated beautifully. I had these cute little Wilton “princess” cookie cutters and used the princess crown and “glass slipper”. With 3 young kids, my surprise baking projects usually occur late at night. The first night I worked on baking the sugar cookies. Once they cooled, I stored them in plastic storage containers to keep them fresh.
The following night I made lime flavored icing by mixing 1 C powdered sugar, the juice from half of a fresh lime and 1-2 tsp of milk until the right consistency is reached. Only one or two drops of blue food coloring were added to this batch of icing. I carefully outlined the shoes and let them dry overnight, then piped icing into bow shapes on a sheet of wax paper and placed a candy in the center. Since I had some left over blue icing, I wrote a Happy 3rd Birthday message on a few crown shaped cookies. I figured that I could make these into cookie pops if I place two cookies around a pop stick held in place with icing.
The next day I made another batch of white icing and filled in the surface of the shoe using the flow technique.
Pink princess crowns! Some outlined with icing and some filled with white sprinkles.
Two days before the party, I started working on the Cinderella doll cake. Instead of using a cake doll pick, I used a Disney Princess Cinderella Ballerina doll. This doll worked perfect for many reasons. First, she already has a painted corset-like leotard in blue and her hair is in a updo. I added a thin piece of ribbon to create her blue headband. Then I removed the tutu and wrapped her from the waist down in plastic wrap, since this part will be in the cake. I also cut two thin strips of plastic wrap to wind around the arm joints because I planned on piping icing to make puffy sleeves for her dress. The plastic wrap not only keeps the cake clean, it also makes her much easier to wash off because the best part…my little girl will be able to play with her Cinderella doll after her birthday.
I made the cake using the Wilton Classic Wonder Mold and one 9″ round pan. The round layer is needed to add extra height to the dress to ensure the doll is covered from the waist down. I made cake batter from two boxes of yellow cake mix, then filled the 9″ round pan first and then added the rest of the batter to the dress shaped pan. Per the directions for the Wonder Mold pan, it needs to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before cutting the extra cake off to make a level surface before dumping it to cool on a rack.
Once the cake was removed from the pan and cooling, I made chocolate instant pudding to use as a filling in between the two layers. This also gives the cake additional height and makes it a bit more yummy. Using a long sharp knife, I cut a cylinder shaped piece out of the center of the cake just large enough to fit the doll in tightly. Now she is ready to be decorated!
I placed one of each cookie into these cute little bags for my edible party favors.
I found a use for my cookie pops! I made a few cupcakes which held the cookie pops and three candles for the birthday girl.
She absolutely enjoyed her Cinderella birthday and she was quite the little princess on her special day!
Rapunzel Doll Cake
I have three little princesses of my own and I am gearing up for my 3 year olds birthday. She is requesting a Cinderella cake this year. I will be making this cake in a couple of weeks, so I thought I would look back at the cake I made last year and start pulling my ideas together. Hope you will come back and see Cinderella soon!
My oldest daughter was totally intrigued with the movie Tangled and the Princess Rapunzel (and still is, almost a year later). I decided to make her a Rapunzel doll cake for her 4th birthday. I bought the Wilton Classic Wonder Mold and knew that I would be making at least three doll cakes for each of my daughters some day. Instead of buying one of the Wilton doll picks. I decided to take a stab at using an actual Disney Princess Rapunzel doll (about the same height as Barbie)…because how else could I recreate Rapunzel’s long hair?
Another bonus…my daughter could play with her doll after her party. I removed the dress that the doll came with and tried to recreate the top of the dress using some cheap material I found at the dollar store and some ribbon. It took a little work stitching this together, but it worked and people didn’t even realize what I had done!
I made the cake using the Classic Wonder Mold and also made a 9″ inch round and a few cupcakes. I added a filling layer by adding some whip cream and fresh strawberries in between these two layers to make it even more yummy. This also strategically added enough height for the dress to cover the legs of the doll. I wrapped the doll in plastic wrap from the waist down, the part that would be inserted into the cake. I also wrapped Rapunzel’s hair with plastic wrap to ensure that it wouldn’t get messy when icing the cake. Using a long knife, I cut a narrow cylinder shape out of the center of the cake to insert the doll (enough width to hold the doll tightly and upright). I tinted my icing in two shades of lavender, trying to match it as close as I could to the top of her dress. In between the two shades of icing, I used lavender M&Ms.
A birthday cake needs candles! This is why I decorated 4 matching cupcakes to hold 4 candles for my birthday girl to blow out.
Here was my first princess cake!
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