My son wanted a Mr Men Birthday Cake for his 4th birthday, he wasn’t bothered which Mr Man so I thought Mr Bump might be the easiest to make. I made two 9 inch round cakes using a basic Victoria sponge recipe (4oz butter, 4oz sugar, 4oz flour, 2 eggs and a little hot water.
I tripled the amounts for each cake, I sandwiched the cakes together with butter icing (twice the amount of icing sugar as butter whisked and a little water or milk) coloured with Sugarflair blue gel colour. I covered the cake with a thin layer as a crumb coating, a tip I got from this site, left it in the fridge for a couple of hours then covered with a thicker layer of butter icing.
The hands and feet are sugarpaste coloured with the same blue gel and shaped accordingly. The bandages are white sugarpaste rolled out, cut into strips and stuck over the cake. The mouth and eyes are done with one of those little tubes of gel icing you get for kids to decorate cookies with etc, it looked really neat to start with but I put the cake in the fridge which made the edges of the gel blur so I would leave it out of the fridge if I used it again.
Thanks for the tip about the tube icing melting in the fridge :)
Roughly how much sugarpaste do you need to cover a cake like this? Thanks