Celebrations – A Stuffy birthday cake

We had decided to make Luath a birthday card featuring Stuffy, who is a toy from a CBeebies children’s programme.  I then had the idea that I would also make her a Stuffy cake.  As I couldn’t purchase square cake tins locally and the one’s I ordered didn’t arrive until after Luath’s birthday I had to improvise.  Stuffy turned out slightly more squashed than he should be, but Luath loved him and recognised him, and really that is all the matters.  I cheated slightly by not making the cakes, the first time I have used a cake mix since I was a kid.  It was my first attempted at decorating a cake and I really enjoyed the experience.

Ingredients
We used two cake mix packets that were designed to fill 2 x 8” round cake tins each.
Ready to roll coloured icing
Icing sugar
Tub butter cream icing
Writing icing in black and red
Orange sprinkles

What I did with some help from my little assistant

Luath and I made the cake mix as per the packet’s instructions.  Then divided the mixtures between four 1 lb loaf tins.

Once the cakes were cooled I sandwiched them together with butter cream icing.  (They would have looked better if I had squared off the cakes but we were feeding a lot so needed every bit of cake). I also covered the sides with butter cream icing.

Each side of Stuffy is a different colour so for each side I used about half a packet of ready to roll icing.  I rolled it out to slightly bigger than the side.  I smoothed the icing onto the cake side then trimmed the icing to size.

To make the eyes, I mixed up some icing sugar into a thick consistency, then rolled it in some more icing sugar.  I split the ball in two and then flattened each piece into an eye shape.  Quickly attaching it to the cake with butter cream icing.  I added two small pieces of black icing.  Using the writing icing I added a black smile and red stitches.

Stuffy has fluffy hair so I gave his head a thin covering of butter cream icing and then poured orange sprinkles over.

I was behind Luath when daddy brought out the cake with the candles but he said her face lit up with joy.  She managed to blow both candles out by herself (must be all the blowing bubbles we have been doing lately).  There was not much left of Stuffy to take home.
     

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(Luath is 24 months)