When my daughter turned two, she was really into “Happy Feet.” We decided to venture away from our typical Wilton pan birthday cake and do a freehand Happy Feet Birthday Cake.
Using the Happy Feet napkin design, my husband cut the Happy Feet shape seen in the picture using a serrated knife. We used a 13×9 cake pan to create the shape, which produced a large enough cake to feed most of the 20ish people at the party along with cupcakes we made just in case. One cake mix was all we needed. I used pre-made frosting to color. A buttercream vanilla was used as the base for the blue-gray and white seen. Chocolate frosting was used for the “black.” I made the blue-gray using the white frosting some Wilton black coloring gel and a little blue. The turquoise color for the eye was made with the white frosting and Wilton teal.
The mouth was made using the white frosting and mickey peach. The yellow was made using the white frosting and yellow. We made the cake in August in Texas during the heat of the summer and my goal of using the “star” tip piping method had to be abandoned because the frosting started to melt.
We had also started the cake the morning of the party so we were short on time. Thus, we decided to “ice” the cake like a regular cake using the different colors. To make it more realistic , we used a toothpick to “feather” the frosting and to blend the colors a bit so that they would not look so divided.
Happy Feet danced shortly after that. It took about 3 hours to put the whole thing together.
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