This Scooby Doo cake is made from scratch. I used Google to search for ideas for the Scooby Doo theme. It is a 2 layer cake consisting of marbled vanilla, chocolate and strawberry butter cake.
Each cake base is layered in 3 and stuck together with chocolate ganache. I left the cakes to dry a bit overnight and then covered each ganached cake base in plastic icing. I used Bakels RTR plastic icing which I colored with Wilton gel colors in lime green and royal blue. The layers are put on top of each other and the bottom edges are covered with a colored icing ribbon.
I made the mystery van on top with plain chocolate butter cake. I carved out the shape of the bus by cutting off the corners. I then also ganached the cake and covered it in plastic icing. All the decorations were hand made by myself using colored plastic icing. I made the Scooby face with a teddy bear brown plastic icing which I cut out the shape from a cardboard cutout printed from an image off the net. The ghosts were store bought.
All decorations are entirely edible. It was a hit with kids and adults alike. The cake was extremely moist and tasty, but very hard work.
First off, I love this cake! Sadly, I have to admit, I don’t know that much about Scooby. I’ve been searching the net to get ideas and this one really caught my eye.
My grandson wants a Scooby birthday for his 4th birthday. I emailed my daughter a picture of the cake and she fell in love with it and said it would be perfect.
You used a term I’m not familiar with (plastic icing) could you tell me if this is fondant or something else? If it’s not fondant, could you tell me what recipe you used?
Thanks for any help you can give. Again, LOVE THE CAKE!!
Wow! I love this cake. I’m new to the cake making game and have an order for a Scooby cake. I am definitely taking inspiration from your cake.
Can you please let me know how you get the plastic icing shapes to stick onto the iced cake? I read somewhere that glucose syrup is the go, however i tried that recently and my shapes started to slide down. Any tips you could give me would be greatly appreciated. And again, this is an amazing cake. Well done and thanks for sharing it!