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Coolest Backpack and Map Birthday Cake 10
by Melissa
(Oklahoma)
Homemade Backpack and Map Birthday Cake
My daughter watches Dora all the time, so what better way to celebrate her 2nd birthday than to have a Backpack and Map Birthday Cake. I made two 13x9 cakes, I used one as the base and the other (placing it on top of the base) I cut out in the shape of Backpack from a coloring page I printed off. I used two containers of icing in total.
Half I colored light purple and iced the Backpack (not map) and then I darkened the purple to do the shading. I then used only about a couple of tablespoons of icing (l t. yellow) to color map. What's left I darkened that up to do the eyebrows of Backpack, after I used a toothpick to lightly draw out the face in the icing. I used a baggie to decorate the features (mouth, eyes, pupils, inside of map and eyebrows) and on all the colors I only used about a tablespoon of icing.
I then used black to outline everything. The hardest was the map, it took a little while and a little clean up but if you follow a picture or like me a coloring page it will look fine. Wheewww, the hardest part is done now its time to pick a color and decorate the base with the remaining icing.
