Coolest Curious George Birthday Cake 53
Homemade Curious George Birthday Cake
Due to lack of time and the fact that this Curious George Birthday Cake was the first cake that I've ever decorated, I purchased a plain white iced cake from the grocery store. I then bought Wilton white decorators icing to tint myself.
First, I tried to make brown by mixing green and red, but it didn't come out the way I wanted, so I ended up buying Betty Crocker brown chocolate icing. I mixed extra white icing to make the lighter brown. I also purchased already prepared black icing for the outlines. I tinted my own pink and yellow for my final colors.
Next, I free handed a drawing from a picture online to a piece of paper and then traced that drawing onto wax paper. After slightly freezing the cake to firm up the icing I tried to copy the drawing onto the cake using a toothpick (like another cake submitter did). However, I was unsuccessful...my wax paper stuck! So, I had to again free hand my George drawing onto the cake with just a toothpick.
Finally, I traced the toothpick outline with my black icing using a round tip (#3). I filled in George with a star tip (#16). I used a star tip (#32) to make the border. Again, I used the round tip (#3) to make my writing. I definitely (after trying both) would recommend writing cursive as opposed to the print that I tried. The cursive looked more smooth and was easier to complete.
Before I used the icing to write on the cake I used a toothpick to mark what I was going to write. This was a lot of fun. It probably took me about 3 hours to complete.
