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Yesterday was Steve's 44th birthday. A couple of weeks ago he and Jenna were discussing cakes and what kind he wanted. As she's all things pink, she was truly shocked and appalled when he stated he wanted a grey cake (as a joke).
"NO!!! It has to have pink!"
"It's my cake and I want grey."
Never jokinly tell your spouse you want a grey cake, as you just may get it! So I began thinking about his cake and what I needed to do. I figured I'd get a white cake mix and add black food coloring to it. The frosting would be darker grey and I was going to try and leave the frosting streaky so it would look like a slab of marble.
I was discussing this with my mom a few days ago and the marble slab cake morphed to the mouse cake as they're grey, as well. And instead of grey cake mix I opted for red velvet a la "Steel Magnolias."
Now came the task of engineering this cake. I've never done a 3D cake before. I had two mixes; one in a 9" round, a loaf pan, and the rest in cupcakes if I needed any extra pieces. The round cake I cut in half and frosted together to make the back. The loaf cake I cut in half for the head and shaped it:
Using the rest of the loaf cake I fashioned legs:
Now the mouse is mostly frosted.
And it's done! The whiskers are toothpicks that I colored black with a sharpie. I had a corner piece of cake that made an excellent hunk of cheese. I piped frosting for the tail.
Notice the little detail....
It's not perfect and is most definitely an amateur cake. I don't think Duff has anything to worry about......
Here, Steve is posing, getting ready to hack into his very own ROUS.
Lining up for the first cut......
Beheading the ROUS.
I made red frosting to glue the pieces together. However, I wasn't able to get the red dark enough. We weren't expecting this visual, but it was an added bonus!
Steve's first sucessful mouse lobotomy!
Way too much food this weekend, but all-in-all, I think it was a sucessful birthday! Happy birthday, Stevie!!!
2 comments:
Happy Birthday Steve! Though I hate to admit it that man of yours is now my age, well for a few more weeks anyway!
Love the cake! Cute! You are very creative! What did your daughter think of it?
Happy Bday as well. What a great cake! My mother-in-law baked a cake and designed it as a little lamb for Easter one year when our kids were little. She deep froze it and sent it via UPS across country to us. When we opened the box the head was lopped off - we joked about eating the lamb that was slain.
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