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| Happy Birthday OLPT! |
ROARRR!!! Is that the sound dinos make?
I hope so.
Cuz that's going onto the cake I'm making.
More on Petite Pops' animal adventures:
Just back from Japan - rejuvenated, missing the crazy fubuki and superb food terribly, but all ready to work on my OLPT's birthday cake *rub hands in glee*.
> OLPT = Official Little Pops Tester (it's a good job ;)
His Mommy's throwing a dino party this year, and we thought it'd be fun to work in a couple of cake pops into the chocolate cake (seriously... what's a birthday without cake pops?!).
Trees - that's what I'll use the red velvet cake pops for.
Set up a nice jungle backdrop for the dino story.
Set up a nice jungle backdrop for the dino story.
This is from my baking inspiration, Bakerella - she is THE cake pop goddess! The recipe uses boxed cake mix, I use cakes baked from scratch which work just as well.
It also features canned frosting, which is a fantastic binder. I'm not such a fan so I use jams, buttercreams, ganache - anything that binds will work. Oh, but no chunks. Those get in the way when rolling into cake shapes.
Ok, back to the dino cake.
What's next?
I mulled over the design for a couple of days and started putting the pieces together:
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| It looks like a jumble now, but it'll all come together, you'll see! |
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| The cake is taking shape... |
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| Thin crumb coat of banana buttercream before the fondant goes on ... or as the Cake Boss would say, "durrrty-ice it!" |
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| Keeping the colors fairly cheery, OLPT is after all only 6. And my fave detail: the bones! |
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| This little fella found his way into the dino scene. Couldn't help it, got hold of the cutest little porcupine cutter in Japan and had to use it. |
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| ROAR!!! Finishing touch of dino eggs, cake pop trees and we're all set. |
Happy Birthday Aaron, to many years of Official Pops Testing ahead!
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