1st Birthday Bear Cake

by Amanda
(Baltimore, MD, USA)

I made this cake for my daughter's first birthday party. It was quite simple to do. First I bought the cake pan and on the actual pan it tells you what tips to buy so that you can correctly create the design. I bought a boxed store mix and followed the directions to make it i then greased the pan and let it bake.

Once it had cooled off to room temperature. I began to ice it. I bought white store canned icing and a box of food coloring, I was able to mix the colors i wanted in separate blows by just putting a few drops of food coloring in with the icing and mixing it up. I started with the biggest area that needed to be done first and used the tips they told me to, to just follow the color design and instructions on the original pan.

I did make a couple mistakes, but since it's just icing you just wipe it off and try again, no big deal. I think it turned out fabulous and everyone at the party was impressed. Originally the number written on the block wasn't a 1 but i just changed that to fit our needs (and didn't really need any instruction on that). Best of all my daughter was thrilled too!