I had a hard time finding hats and napkins for the theme, but I improvised with hats and napkins that were part of a dog theme. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. But I have to give a special mention to my mum who made a marshmallow slice for the party in advance, even though on the day she was visiting a remote Aboriginal community near Alice Springs – now that is dedication! They also said to use cupcakes for the paws however I wish I had used cake because no matter how hard I tried; it still looked like she was sitting funny with her hand.

And an honorary mention goes to my dad and niece, Maddy, who navigated all sorts of road blocks for Melbourne University’s open day to bring the slice to the party. Take a look at these cool homemade Blues Clues cakes shared with us by cake decorators from around the world. I used dark blue to pipe over the outline and then used light blue to fill in Blue, and then the darker blue for her spots.For these two Blues Clues cakes, I used two different cake pans and made one into Blue and one into Magenta for my son and Goddaughters birthdays. Instead of just leaving it sit for 24 hours that if you freeze your cake it is much easier to ice and you can just brush crumbs off. I used plain yellow cake mix however I wish I had either frozen the cake or used pound cake for easier cutting. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Of course, even without this recipe, Fran made a nice cake which, when the paper was peeled off, looked a perfect shape.

Though the frosting was not as smooth as I would have liked it to be my son loved it as did the guests.The vanilla buttercream is blue ombréd from bottom to top, with matching ombré buttercream swirling the top edge, on the sides and the board. The amount of butter cream you need to tint will depend on the area you need to cover, so the following is an estimation only. The current post requirements are as follows: account age at least 3 days old, post karma: minimum 2, and comment karma: minimum 20. So on the Friday before the party, she cooked E and I a curry, and while the boys watched a dvd, we set to work on a plain sponge cake that she had prepared earlier.

recipe said to use taffy for the spots and the tongue; I just used frosting and tinted it the color needed. Melbourne, Australia Recipes and reflections in which our vegetarian heroine dreams of being tall and graceful as a giraffe; being a goddess in the kitchen; and being gladdened by green gadgets, green food and green politics because green is the colour of hope. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. For the patches on the ears, I started with putting some black into a blue icing mix and it went a muddy colour so I threw it out and started again, this time with a darker blue I have in my icing colours which worked much better. Spoon batter into a greased and lined cake tin – if you use a 20 cm tin it should take 50 minutes to cook in a 180C oven, but test with a skewer to check it is done.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. To ensure the world has healthy forests AND high-quality wooden toys, we’ve committed to planting 10 million trees by 2030. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

After I frosted the entire cake light blue I used toothpicks to draw in the frosting, an outline for the spots and her tongue. We decided to use cupcakes because they are a lot easier and faster to pass out to excited and hungry little kids. And don’t forget… if you end up with a cool cake, have great tips to share or pictures of awesome birthday cakes you’ve made in the past, share them here and be a part of our coolest birthday cake community. I tried to mix it up a little and purchased a pair of craft eyes (obviously this can be a choking hazard, so supervision when cutting the cut is required!com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. For her tongue, cut pink taffy into shape and press the back of a knife down the center for the crease. It was a barbecue in the park – sausages and hamburgers on the electric barbie, and lots of bread and tomato sauce to eat them with (and veggies sausages for me! Change country: -Select- Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. We used marshmallows with a little black gel icing for the eyes (and used a teeny bit of icing to stick the eyes on).