This fun ladybug birthday cake is a quick, easy cake-decorating project that doesn’t take much more than a box of cake mix, some colored icing and marshmallows.
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If you have not already done so, bake your round layer cake according to package directions and cool it completely. If it is not cooled, your icing will start to melt and slide off the cake.
Place your cake right side up on the plate you will display it on. If you prefer, you can place your cake on a cake board and move it to it’s permanent home once it is completed. However, most of us don’t have cake boards handy. The cake pictured here is resting on a paper plate.
First, fill one sandwich bag 1/3 full with some chocolate icing. Push the icing toward one of the bottom corners of the bag. Snip a small hole in the corner of the bag with your scissors. Twist the excess bag to create a decorating “piping bag”. Place the “twist” in the joint between your thumb and the rest of your hand. Close your hand over the rest of the bag (See picture #2). View a video tutorial on creating a piping bag out of a sandwich bag for this step if you are unsure how it should be done. To decorate your cake, you will squeeze the bag. Try it a little on some wax paper to get used to it.
Now, following the design on picture #3, “pipe” an outline for the head and under-body parts of the ladybug. These are the areas you would normally color black on a ladybug. Next, fill in the areas. I filled in the head area with swirls and the back area with lines.
Then, Fill a sandwich bag 1/3 full with red icing. Just as you did with the chocolate icing, push the icing toward one corner and cut a hole in the corner. This time, cut a larger hole. Make little “blobs” of red icing – about dime sized – all over the remainder of the cake. You could simply smooth on the red with a spatula, but I feel it is easier and less messy for me to pipe it onto the cake.
Once the red area is done, pick up your chocolate icing bag again and pipe spiraled circles onto the back of the ladybug. They don’t have to be symmetrical and there doesn’t need to be a lot. Six 1-inch circles should be plenty.
For the eyes, cut the ends off a large marshmallow and press them close together at the front of the cake on the chocolate “head. Then, pipe chocolate “eyes” onto the marshmallows. Suddenly, with the eyes done, the cake becomes a giggle grabber.
For the antennae (optional), cut strips out of a length of a red Twizzler and push one end of each down into the cake just above the eyes. I cut a 3 or 4-inch length off and cut it into 4 strips, using only 2 for the cake. On the exposed end of each, attach a miniature marshmallow. It’s easier if you make a hole in the miniature marshmallow first with a knife, then push it onto the Twizzler piece.
With the antennae done, your cake is finished! You can put candles in the cake and enjoy!
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