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Kipper the Dog cake submitted by:
Amanda M.
Prees, England
A simple heavy mixture of cake was created approx 12inches by 14 inches. I copied a Kipper the dog picture onto A4 paper and enlarged it to approx A3 size. I cut the individual segments out and once the cake mixture was ready, cut around the segments (body, head, ears, etc).
The icing is tricky as I could not get the lighter brown colour so I had to mix paprika coloring in with yellow and green to the white icing. The dark brown was easier to get as that comes already brown or brown coloring is easier to find. Care was taken to wrap the rolled icing out over the desired areas. A pontifract cake, (liquorice) nose and a liquorice pen to do the mouth, eyes and feet.
Kipper the Dog cake submitted by:
Deborah N.
London
This Kipper the dog cake was from a book that came with a Kipper soft toy and a blanket. I couldn't quite manage tartan for the blanket but used luster dusts in a crisscross pattern to give the effect. I made Kipper from a mixture of fondant and gum paste for extra strength and painted the bits you can see. The bits under the blanket are a bit rough and ready but you need them to make the blanket drape nicely.
The basket weave round the sides is made from butter icing and isn't as hard to do as you might think. Do the uprights first ensuring there is an even number and then ice horizontally stopping where you go 'under' and then starting again on the other side.
Kipper the Dog cake submitted by:
Stephanie T.
Burlington, KY
My daughter loves Kipper the Dog videos (it used to be a cartoon series on Nick Jr.) so I decided to make her a Kipper cake for her second birthday. But since Kipper is a British creation you can't really find much Kipper stuff here in the US--no cake pans or party favors. I got on this site and found one lady who made a gorgeous Kipper cake for her son and I followed her tips.
| My cake was much smaller than hers but it was the first birthday cake I'd ever made and I thought it turned out very well. Kipper and his friends are always playing on "Big Hill" and at the pond so my cake had a pond and a big hill. I made two 9x13 yellow cakes and a chocolate cake in a small round Pyrex mixing bowl for my hill. |  |
I stacked the two 9x13 cakes with a layer of green buttercream and placed my chocolate hill cake on top. It was so small that I didn't use any supports but if you made a bigger cake and a bigger hill or if you planned to transport it anywhere you might want to use toothpicks or dowels to support it.
Then I dug a small pond out of the top cake. I stuck the cakes in the freezer for about 15 minutes and then did a "crumb coat" (thin layer of icing) of green butter cream icing and a layer of blue icing in the bottom of the pond. The layer of icing in the pond makes the pond look extra blue and keeps the piping gel from seeping down into the cake. After the first layer of icing set I did my second layer and got it really smooth by dipping my off set spatula into a glass of hot water and running it over the icing. I filled the pond with blue tinted piping gel. You can buy it but it's kind of expense for the amount I needed. I just "Googled for "piping gel recipe" and found a recipe for it.
| Then I used a grass tip to cover "Big Hill" with grass. I'd never used this tip before and was surprised at how fast and easy it was! Then I used a star tip to do grass around the pond and the bottom of the cake and I put store-bought icing flowers on to make it look "girly" for my daughter :) For Kipper I got online and found pictures of him and printed them off on my color printer and then cut him out and taped him to a straw and stuck him on top of "Big Hill". |  |
For party favors I made sugar cookies cut out in the shape of dog bones and gave each guest a brown "doggie bag" to take home with them. The Kipper the Dog party was a lot of fun!
Kipper the Dog cake submitted by:
Jennifer M.
Barrington, NJ
I made this Kipper the dog cake for my daughter's second birthday. I got the idea from the Kipper cake on this site. Instead of tinting the icing green I sprayed it with the aerosol color. I made Kipper Tiger Pig and Arnold out of fondant. I also made the duck blanket picnic basket out of fondant.
This cake was a big hit! My daughter loved it! Thank you for the idea and this is my version.
Kipper the Dog cake submitted by:
Angie T.
Groveport, OH
My son requested Kipper the Dog as the theme for his third birthday party. He is crazy about that mellow, yet adventurous, British pooch.
The books and videos are filled with such laid back activities, such as picnics, feeding the ducks at the pond, swimming, and going to "big hill". Andrew told me exactly what he wanted on his cake..."Big Hill, Duck pond, Kipper and a Picnic Basket".
I did the Cattail's and Picnic Basket one week before the party. The Cattail's were done by taking a spaghetti noodle, inserting it into the tip 4 of a pastry bag filled with brown icing. You then pipe the icing while pulling out the noodle, so that it looks like a cattail. For a more realistic look, you can then roll the noodles ends in Cocoa . You can store these by sticking them in a square of Styrofoam .
The Picnic Basket was done with fondant, just like working with Play-dough! I painted with food coloring. For a more realistic orange, I carefully rolled it on a spice grater to give texture to it.
The trees can also be done ahead of time. They are just upside down ice cream cones. I piped the icing on with a star tip.
I baked four 9x13 cakes, two chocolate, and two white. I assembled them so that half of my cake was white, half chocolate. I then decided where I wanted the Pond to go, and carefully scooped out the cake to get it to the depth I wanted. I popped it into the freezer to firm up the area with loose crumbs.
While waiting for that, I thinned some blue buttercream. After removing the firm cake from the freezer, I painted the bottom of the pond with thinned buttercream, using a pastry brush. Next I frosted the cake green, being careful not to get the green in my pond. I then added Big hill, which is just a half ball pan. The next step was to tint piping gel blue and carefully fill in the pond! I added a fondant turtle, and Lily Pads that formed a 3!
This Kipper the Dog cake was so much fun, and meant so much to me to be able to bring my son's creation to life! The look on his face when that cake was brought out to him was absolutely priceless!
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