Coolest Baby Groot Cake for a 10th Birthday Party

My son wanted a Guardians of the Galaxy theme for his 10th birthday so I made him a baby Groot cake. After doing a little bit of image searching on the internet and looking at some tutorials for baby Groot, I put it all together to make as simple a cake as I could pull off. (I am a hobbyist/amateur doing just a few family birthdays a year).

Baby Groot Cake Instructions

I made a white cake in a 9″ pan for the bottom platform layer.
Then I made two 6″ layers of dark chocolate for the main cake since this was just a small party.
I made two batches of homemade buttercream dyed to match the colors I needed.
Happily, I found a small little herb pot to use for baby Groot.

Assembling the Baby Groot Cake

I put parts of a cupcake into the herb pot topped with chocolate Oreo crumbs.
Next, I colored fondant different shades of brown to give Groot some color pattern, and made various lengths of fondant “string” and laid a few pieces side by side and twisted them to make a ropey body.
I used the same technique to make the arms.
I placed the body on a trimmed down skewer to be inserted into the flower pot.
To attach the arms, I straightened and re-formed large paperclips for stability. Then I attached them at the top of the body.
I formed the head by hand and trimmed and decorated based on YouTube tutorials.
I also shaped some green fondant into little sprouts to attach to Groot’s body with water and a paintbrush.
There were holes in the bottom of the pot so I used more skewers to insert into the bottom to use as stabilizers and inserted that into the top of the cake.
The cassette tape was hard without proper tools but I layered a rectangular piece of white fondant. Then topped it with a thin layer of gray. Next, I cut out white circles and used a thin food marker to write spokes onto the circles.
I cut smaller black circles into the center of the white circles.

Finishing Touches

On top of it all I cut red strips of fondant and tried my best to size them inside but if I’d had more time or were doing these professionally I’d have used a ruler to measure and cut it all out more precisely.
I found some Guardian toys at Five Below to use on the cake as a little toy bonus for my son. Also because making fondant figures would take me weeks. Plus making them that tiny and accurate is beyond my skills.
I also cut out some stars onto gray fondant. In order to get a glittery look, I sprayed them silver with the edible food spray found at cake stores.
The black little balls are Sixlets, often found at JoAnns or Hobby Lobby.

For another fun baby Groot cake idea, check this out!

Baby Groot Cake Instructions

Assembling the Baby Groot Cake

Finishing Touches

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