My sister, brother-in-law and I made this Platypus cake for my son’s first birthday. It was inspired by his favorite toy, a stuffed platypus from Australia that we named Hodgepodge. Despite our best efforts, Hodgepodge’s bill took a beating during the teething months. Since our son loved to gnaw on the platypus so much, we thought we would give him a cake that he could really sink his teeth into, and he loved it!
This cake used 2 and 1/2 cake mixes. For the body, we baked two chocolate cake mixes in a large rectangular pan (roughly 5″w x 16″l x 4″h) that we purchased at a specialty cake shop. The pan can also be used for fire trucks and railroad cars. We used a knife to trim the body to look like a platypus, wrapped it in plastic wrap and foil and froze it for 4 days.
The day before the party, we thawed the body and baked another 1/2 chocolate cake mix in a round pan and cut out the tail from the round cake. We frosted the entire cake using whipped chocolate frosting. We followed up with dark chocolate fudge frosting squeezed from a pastry bag to make the fur. The bill and the webbed feet were made of fondant with a small amount of black food coloring.
Well done, Stephanie!
Your platypus cake looked so lifelong:) Beautiful!
That has to be one of the coolest cakes I have seen!!! Well done!
It is the coolest platypus cake… And, it was delicious to boot! Well done on the gorgeous platypus cake.
That is so cool! what prompted a platypus!
Great job! This cake looks amazing!
that is the coolest cake I have ever seen! I love Platypus! how do you make it
I love platypuses so I think it is a great idea to make one. Most people don’t care about platypuses, so I’m inspired!
Oh wow! I thought of making a cake shaped as a platypus for my boyfriends birthday. I had no idea it has been done before!! That looks great!
I have seen a platypus for real over in Australia and I must say that your cake looks very real! Good job with the fur frosting!
I love Platypus and your cake is so cool
That is a truly remarkable cake…the best
I have ever seen.It looks so life like!
i tried to make it but it fell a part. so we all know who has the talent u.
these cakes are too pretty to eat !!!! lol
IT LOOKS SO AMAZING! I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. WELL DONE!
Yo. That’s some sweet stuff. LOL. Great job. Must’ve took long to make that fur!!!!
what an awesome cake, very cool