Monday, August 6, 2007

Mom Cat & Kitten Cakes


Mom Cat & Kitten Cakes
Silly Cakes

Serves: 16
Decorate & Assemble: Depends on skill



Planning Tip: Can be made up to 2 days ahead. Cover after frosting sets and store at room temperature.

You’ll need a serving tray at least 14 x 11 in.

2 family-size frozen poundcakes (16 oz each), thawed as pkg directs
3 cans (16 oz each) vanilla frosting
Yellow, orange and black paste (gel) food color
1 each black, dark-pink and light-pink jelly bean
1 black licorice lace
2 green and 2 blue mini-baking bits (such as M&M’s)
5 or 6 strands cherry Twizzlers Pull-n-Peel
3 dark-pink (tropical punch) and 1 light-pink (strawberry banana) Starburst
Fruit Chews
2 round hard candies
1 red Swedish fish jelly candy

1. Cut cakes as shown (click here for diagram). Coat pieces with a thin layer of frosting to seal in crumbs. Place on wax paper; let set about 30 minutes.

2. Mom cat: Assemble on serving tray as shown (click here for large image), using just enough frosting to glue pieces together.

3. Tint 1/4 cup frosting yellow, then stir in a touch of orange to tint frosting buttery yellow. Using untinted frosting, generously frost Mom cat, pulling frosting out at sides of face to resemble fur. Apply yellow frosting with a narrow metal spatula for markings on tail, body, paws and face. While frosting is wet, insert black jelly bean sideways for nose. Add curved pieces of black licorice lace for eyelids, mouth and a line between nose and mouth.

4. Mix 1/2 tsp vanilla frosting with a little black food color and 1 or 2 drops water. Dip in tip of a toothpick; draw whiskers.

5. Orange tabby kitten: Assemble and glue pieces together as in Step 2 (click here for large image). Tint 3/4 cup vanilla frosting pale orange and 2 Tbsp frosting a darker orange. Frost kitten with pale orange, pulling frosting out at sides of face to resemble fur. Apply darker orange for markings on tail, body, paws and face. Spread some untinted frosting at center of face. Cut dark-pink jelly bean crosswise in half. Insert half, cut side in, for nose. Add green baking bits for eyes and a curved piece of a Twizzlers strand for the mouth.

6. White-and-gray kitten: Assemble and glue pieces together as in Step 2 (click here for large image). With black food color, tint 2 Tbsp frosting pale gray. Frost kitten with vanilla frosting using gray frosting for markings. Cut light-pink jelly bean in half crosswise. Insert half, cut side in, for nose. Add blue baking bits for eyes. Cut a small piece of a Twizzlers strand; insert cut side to make a tiny ‘o’ for the mouth.

7. Knead together dark-pink Fruit Chews. With a rolling pin, roll out to a 5 x 3-in. piece. Cut a narrow strip, tie into a bow and place on head of white-and-gray kitten. Cut out triangles for mom’s ears and white-and-gray kitten’s ears. Frost 1 side; glue onto ears. Roll out remaining Fruit Chew to a 3 x 1-in. piece. Cut 2 triangles for tabby’s ears; glue on.

8. Wrap 1 round hard candy with Twizzlers strands to resemble a ball of yarn. Place near mom cat. Place other round candy and fish between kittens’ paws.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a neat idea !!!

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