Angry Bird-day to Bubby!

Are you an Angry Birds fanatic? Bubby is. He's crazy about it.

Original Angry Birds.....Angry Birds Seasons....Angry Birds Rio....he loves them all.

And the only type of cake that would do was an Angry Birds cake. He really loved it when his super charming Uncle Cowboy showed him the YouTube video of the playable Angry Birds cake.



And yes, I can thank his uncle for turning him on to Angry Birds in the first place.

But you may have seen my confession yesterday: I'm a procrastinator. I didn't have enough time to make those pigs and birds and let them all dry by in time for his party by the time I started figuring out what I was going to do for his cake. So I improvised:











Here's how I did it:

I started with a cake mix, And I baked half in a round pan and the rest as cupcakes. Bake as directed and let cool completely. Tun the round cake out of it's pan and level it if you wish.....I left mine in tact, because I liked the more rounded look for the bird since they are, indeed, round in the game.

Then arrange them like so:











I used a large cutting board as a base for our cake.

I used whipped icing instead of decorator icing because we like the flavor better in our house...but decorator icing would certainly set up firmer with more control.

Color one tub of icing red and spread it on the cake like this:











I always use the gel-type food coloring and am usually happy with my results. Obviously, I haven't cleaned up the edges yet. :)

I added a touch of chocolate icing to another tub of white icing to make it a light tan. I could have used tan coloring....but when given the choice, always opt for adding chocolate. It will never steer you wrong. Spread it in an arc across the bottom of the cake for the bird's belly.











Next, I used some black to outline the difference between the red and tan. Then I had to figure out where to add the face, so I freehanded that on with some black gel icing. It looks scary now, but once I color inside the lines, you won't see my mistakes too much.

I saved some of the white icing I used to make the tan to also make some orange icing for the beak.











And some I left white for the eyes, too.











I added black to his eyes, too.

Then it was time for the cupcakes...I iced them red, too...then kind of connected them with a giant blob/bridge of icing to the rest of the bird.











Then I headed to the scrapbooking supplies and cut some strips of black paper for his tail feathers. I used a knife to make the slits in the side of the cake and inserted them. And I added a little black outline around the edge of the bird to kind of connect the head feathers to the rest of the bird, but I might leave that off if I make it again, because the black gel icing was a little runny in the heat of the kitchen as you can see.

But Bubby loved it anyway!











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