For my son's 2nd birthday I HAD to go with his favorite cartoon character.
This cake looks NOTHING like my original design, but I am not entirely surprised since I think that Blue’s Clues cakes for 2nd birthdays are doomed.
A friend of mine made a Blue’s Clues cake for her son’s 2nd birthday and at the last minute the nice royal icing topper that she had made for it broke and she was stuck with a very basic tiered cake.
I wanted to show that Blue is not adverse to royal icing toppers and with the help of the kids had designed a cake which would have all of the main characters (Blue, Steve, Slippery Soap, Mr Salt, Mrs Pepper, etc) standing on top of the cake. In order to be certain that the royal icing dried fully, I made them a month in advance. There were a dozen characters each 2-4 inches tall that took me a couple of nights to make. They were drying beautifully and all was good.
And then my middle kiddo ate them.
Grrrr!!!!!
So I remade them with a couple of changes. I wasn’t as pleased with the results, but they would do. It’s a cake for a 2 year old after all. He won’t really care. But a week before the party, when I went to remove them from the wax paper and flip them over so they would be fully dry, about half of them broke. So I changed my design and planned on sticking them around the sides of the cake with Blue and Steve standing on top with the candle. I kept the cookie sheets of characters hidden in the oven so that middle kiddo wouldn’t get to them. (He has a history of taste-testing my creations. )
When my landlord came over just days before the party, I took them out to show her. I figured that they would be fine in the couple of minutes it took to walk her to the door when she left. I was wrong. I entered the kitchen and the HE was, hiding behind the table with a half-eaten character in each hand. I was furious, especially when I saw that he had scarfed down all of the unbroken topper pieces.
So I settled on this design. I actually found making the paw prints around the sides of the cake to be very therapeutic after the difficulties of getting the cake put together. And it tasted great and everyone enjoyed it…especially the birthday boy.
Luke dives for his Blue's Clues cake
The cake is funfetti and the frosting is homemade butter cream. The letters on top are the only original royal icing toppers that weren’t eaten or damaged.
