This Pez cake was for my nephew who collects PEZ dispensers. I knew I wanted to make a PEZ cake so I looked on the internet for ideas and this is a cross between 2 cakes that I liked.
I baked a half sheet cake and then cut a piece 6″ x about 16″ long. I could’ve used a smaller pan but I didn’t want to piece the cake together. The extra cake I took to work so it wouldn’t go to waste.
I carved the sides so it looked like the rounded corners of the PEZ package. After I iced it with buttercream I used strips of grey fondant to cover just the ends and folded them like the foil inner package. I used strips of colored fondant to cover the rest of the cake, making sure to tuck the ends under the cake.
The stripes are overlapping the grey but only touching each other. I made a copy of the PEZ logo, enlarged it, then cut it out. I used it as a template, cutting around it to make the blue part of the logo. I then cut a bunch of small white rectangles to complete the logo.
I used a paint brush with some water to “glue” the fondant to each other. I piped happy birthday and it was complete. This was the hit of the restaurant! The waitresses and even other people we didn’t know were coming over to look and take pictures!
There are professionals who wouldn’t have done that good of a job. Your nephew is one lucky boy!
That looks so real!! it is gorgous
My 11 year old son has been collecting pez for quite awhile and his birthday is coming and he loves to watch “ace of cakes” on food network. I was looking for a cake to make with him and this would be great. Thanks for idea. Great job
I LOVE to design cakes and that is just beautifully done. Great job!
I’m going to try to make this cake for my daughter wish me luck. The only thing I’m not sure about is how big I cut the strips that I couldn’t find that out.
Thank you
My best guess on this before making it is that each stripe will be 2″, leaving an inch on ends for grey and the side probably another inch? Before you cut the grey you would have to measure the height just to be accurate! Will let you know after September 12th!
My 11 year old daughter loves Pez she has about 500 of them so I made the Pez cake I have never worked with fondant but it was fun and the cake turned out great everyone loved it.
Thank you so much for your help.