This penguins cake was made for a coworker of mine who loves a good laugh. The cake was a lemon pound cake laced with Italian limoncello, fresh grated lemon peel and fresh squeezed juice. The icing was cream cheese icing and the penguins appeared to be embracing a fun game of bowling using themselves as … Read more
This was my first attempt at cake decorating design ideas of this kind. I made this cake for my friends 22nd birthday. And I thought since she loves penguins I would make her a penguin cake! I started out by making a 13×9 inch cake. I allowed it to cool. I had to enlarge the … Read more
I made the igloo by cooking the sponge in a large metal bowl to avoid carving the shape later. The Pingu Cake was cut in half horizontally and filled with jam and buttercream. I then covered the dome with buttercream and then sugarpaste that I dyed a blueish ice colour. I stuck on the igloo … Read more
This Penguin Igloo Cake was made for my son’s first birthday, his big sisters came up with the design and helped make it come to life! I used box cake mix, two 8 inch squares for bottom and pampered chef batter bowl for igloo, the door was a chunk of square cake. I frosted with … Read more
For my sons Happy Feet birthday I made a little Mumble and a Happy Feet scene with blue jello for the ocean. I made Mumble from a small stand up bear cake pan (I cut the ears off the bear to make him a penguin). Then I used a small star tip to make the … Read more
I saw this Pingu Cake Idea on one of Debbie Brown’s books and wanted to do it for my daughter’s 5th birthday because she loves Pingu. It may seem easy but I assure you that it is a quite difficult cake to prepare. First of all you should cover the board with white fondant and … Read more
For my daughter Emily’s 8th birthday she wanted a penguin cake. She was so pleased with it and we got so many comments that I thought I would share. A couple days before I made the cake, I made the wings, nose and feet from rolled fondant. I dyed the fondant, shaped the pieces and … Read more
My 16 year old daughter loves penguins. When the movie Happy Feet came out she wanted one for her birthday. I simply couldnt grasp the concept of trying that one so I went to a website that teaches children to draw penguins. I practiced my cake decorating design ideas on paper then when the time … Read more
I made this homemade Pingo birthday cake for my husband who likes Pingu. Time was limited so the design had to be basic, quick and simple. The sponge was a 10-inch round cake and I find that just before decorating. I put it in the freezer for half an hour to really chill and this … Read more
This Penguin Cake was my first time ever trying to decorate a cake like this. A good friend of mine was pregnant, and she loves penguins, so we decided to do a penguin theme for her baby shower. The cake is just two boxes of yellow cake mix, prepared as package states, and baked in … Read more
The penguins are made of black and orange food coloring almond paste. I molded it into penguins. The Igloo on top is a separate cake I put on its own foil covered board, cut to shape. Since it was for my sons first birthday he needed his own piece. I decorated it with whipped white … Read more
I baked 2, 4 inch round cakes for this Igloo Birthday Cake Design. I over-filled the second one a little bit to make a “Dome” shape, and 1, 6 inch round. I cut out some of the middle and filled it with vanilla pudding. I then crumb coated the 6 inch cake and put it … Read more