My son wanted to have a Pokemon party so I started looking for a cake. I decided to give it a try myself. I took a picture of his favorite character and enlarged the size to fit inside my cake pan. I had to do half first and then the other half, because of the size of the ears.
I used a homemade vanilla cake recipe for both cakes, baking them in two 13″ x 9″ pans. While the cakes cooled, I transferred the picture outline to wax paper. I used that as my cutting guide. The head and body were connected at the neck. The pokeball was made from scraps of cake, as an afterthought.
I used buttercream icing for everything except the black areas. I purchased some premade icing for the black parts because it is such a difficult color to achieve. I first iced the entire cake with the buttercream and then followed the picture’s details after that.
Use store bought chocolate frosting to mix with little black paste coloring to get black frosting.