Angry Birds Cake

Every year I make The Cisco Kid a theme cake for his Birthday. He loves the Angry Birds games. So Angry Birds cake it is.

I found a new cupcake cake mix that I bake it into a cake instead of the cupcakes. It's by Betty Crocker and it's called Fun da-middles. They are cupcakes with cream baked inside. Instead of putting the batter in cupcake cups I put the batter in a cake tin. To make The Cisco Kids Cake I used two boxes so the cake is nice and tall. I used lots of different kinds of chocolate bars to make the structure. I made all the Angry Birds characters out of molded chocolate. Then I covered the cake with putter cream icing.

Wonderful Butter Cream Icing.  Publix recipe.

Ingredients

1/2 lb	butter
2 c	Crisco vegetable shortening
1 tsp	vanilla extract
1 tsp	butter flavoring
1/2 tsp	almond extract
2 lb	confectioners' sugar
1/4 tsp	salt
1 Tbsp	meringue powder
1 Tbsp	milk, if needed

Directions

1

MIX BUTTER, CRISCO, AND SALT TOGETHER ON LOW SPEED FOR 5 MINUTES. ADD VANILLA, BUTTER FLAVOR, AND ALMOND EXTRACT. BEAT UNTIL WELL BLENDED. TURN MIXER ON TO THE LOWEST SPEED THE MIXER HAS, ADD SUGAR 1/2 CUP AT A TIME UNTIL SUGAR IS MIXED IN. TURN MIXER UP TO MEDIUM SPEED AND BEAT UNTIL SMOOTH AND CREAMY. THIS SHOULD TAKE 5 MINUTES.

2

SOME TIPS: SIFT SUGAR IT HELPS KEEP THE LUMPIES AWAY...
MERINGUE POWDER AND BUTTER FLAVORING CAN BE FOUND WHERE CAKE DECORATING SUPPLIES ARE SOLD.

Phineas and Feerb cake

Cub Scout Cake Auction, I am happy to say that the Phineas and Ferb cake went for a whopping $130.00. The smaller chocolate cake went for $80.00. It was nice that my two cakes brought in two hundred and ten dollars.

The first cake was a Phineas & Ferb cake. The story is....Perry stole Dr Doofensmurf, Rayinator and put it on the Ski lift. Dr Doofensmurf is watching him get away from the top of the mountain. Phineas & Ferb has a very large fan on the back of their snow board to get them down the mountain with minimal work. Candace is stuck on top of the mountain with a ski problem.

The cake was a vanilla pound cake with cookies and cream filling and vanilla butter cream. All characters are made out of chocolate.  I used The Cake Boss's sponge cake recipe.

He is making rice crispy treats to make the mountain ski slopes on the cake. 

 Grinding up the orio cookies to put in the cream for the filling.   

The second cake was a chocolate devil's food cake with vanilla cream center and chocolate fruit.

The Cisco Kid has his paddle and is ready to place his bids on some cakes.

He is telling everyone how delicious the cake is and what it is made out of. 

His face when the price was going up to that 130.00 mark. 

The Cake Boss Sponge cake recipe.

It is a scratch recipe, and the secret to its light and fluffy texture is the beating of the eggs! This recipe is best made in a stand mixer.

4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup butter (lightly salted)
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt


    1. Beat eggs in large mixing bowl with paddle attachment for 4 minutes. Do not skip this step!

2. Add sugar, and continue beating for another 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and stir on low until just combined.

3. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add to eggs and sugar on low speed until just combined.

4. In a saucepan, heat milk and butter on low heat just until butter is melted. Add to batter, beat just until combined.

5. Pour into two greased and floured 8" round cake pans.

6. Bake at 325 until the middle springs back when touched, or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let stand in pans for 10 minutes. Then turn out onto wire cooling racks and cool completely.

Hint: Cakes are close to being done when you start to smell them.

Molding Chocolate Recipe

8 oz. of white vanilla chocolate bark

1/3 cup of corn syrup

mix together and colors if you desire. 

Store in a baggie.

Many Birthday Themes

My son is a real big cake person. He loves cake. Not only does he love cake but he loves theme cakes. When he was three he was into Thomas the Tank Engine. I started a small tradition between him and I. I made a cake and tried to make it look like Thomas. I surprised him with it on his B-day. He flipped out when he saw it. Ever since then he has been requesting certain theme cakes. Three years in a row he has helped me put the finishing touches on them. I made the Thomas cake out of a Wilton 3-D cake pan.
This is his 3rd Birthday, Thomas the Tank Engine

The cake is covered in butter cream Icing. I put Oreo cookies on the cake for the wheels. I used Kit Kat candy for the train tracks. The gravel is Coco Crisp cereal. The palm trees are pretzel sticks with icing leaves.

This is his 4th birthday, Lightning Mc Queen

Since I could not find a Mack truck cake pan in 3-D, I decided to make do with what I had. I used the Train 3-D cake pan from last year. I used the back part of the engine and squared the top with butter cream icing. I happen to find a Wilton car cake pan and used butter cream icing to make it look like Lightning Mc Queen.

This is his 5th Birthday. This year it was all about Bob the Builder.

I went to Publix to see if they had any construction themed cakes that we could embellish. I found a cake with logs, a cut down tree and some yard tools. So the Cisco Kid said he wanted Bob the Builder, muck and the gang toys on the cake. The Chief found the perfect size toys in a B-day theme. I found chocolate candy that looked like rocks. We ordered the cake; brought it home and the Cisco Kid and I had a blast adding Bob the Builder B-day toys and all the rocks.

Bunny Cake

Easter 2011.... we had some friends come over to celebrate this wonderful holiday.  This was my dessert table and my traditional Bunny cake.

This year I used butter icing and all chocolate molded flowers, carrots, whiskers & eyes.