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Coolest Elmo Birthday Cake 74
by Christi S.
(Coatesville IN USA)
I needed to serve 25 people and so I took 2 box mixes and made 2 sheet cakes out of cookie sheets. Use wax paper to line the bottoms of the pans before you pour and bake. This makes it so much easier to get them onto your platter.
I used a large sign and wrapped it 3 times with wrapping paper. I would use the white side of the paper so it doesn't look to busy with a print. I flipped the cooled cakes onto the cutting board or cardboard or whatever you use. Then ice them as 1 large cake.
I used a buttercream frosting recipe of: 1/2c. butter, 1/2c Crisco, 1tsp vanilla, beat til smooth, add 4c. of powdered sugar one cup at a time until well mixed then add 2Tbsp. milk to thin out a little. I added 7 drops of blue and iced the cakes as one.
It took 2 recipes of this icing to cover the cake and even out. Then I took a toothpick and outlined what I wanted to draw. I used the new Betty Crocker red, black, orange icing in aerosol cans that come with the tip and used the flower tip to ice the red. Then I took 3 donut holes, 2 for the eyes and 1 for nose. I then iced the nose with orange Betty Crocker icing and just used the black icing with the thin outline tip to ice the eyes.
Then I went around and added the details with the black icing. It took 4 cans of red icing, 1 of orange, 1 of black, and I made 2 recipes of the blue buttercream. This cake would have fed 50 people. I had over half a cake left. I found the icing at Kroger.
