My good friend/past room mate/future room mate/birthday twin, Steph, asked me for help making a cake for her boyfriend's 21st birthday. She requested an Angry Birds cake. For those who don't know, these are the characters to which she was referring:
This is a video game which you can download and play on your iphone or android. Steph wanted to make the red bird in the center of that image and was wondering if it was feasible. I chuckled to myself a little. Of course, Steph, anything is possible! This is the first time since some of the first few cakes that I had help making a cake! Steph now knows all my tricks and secrets, but I've sworn her to secrecy! We're living together in a little over a month, so I'd eventually have to let her in on the secrets anyway. :)
Knowing we'd have some extra cake batter, we planned to try out
Bakerella's famous
Cake Pops. We planned to make the green pig seen flying in the upper right hand corner of the image above.
I sent Steph out to Wegmans to get cake mix and a couple of ingredients for icing. We then met at Jo-Ann's and picked up some food coloring, sticks, candy melts and a piece of foam to hold the pops up.
Apparently, Dave (Steph's boyfriend), likes double chocolate cake, so when picking out the box cake mix, she picked out the fudgiest looking one she could find. Turns out she went a little too far down the aisle and picked up brownie mix! Ohh, Steph. We had a good chuckle at her expense (hehe) and then decided brownies were more yummy than cake anyway!
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| Ohh Steph. What will I do with you? |
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To make the red bird, we used the same method as I used on
Justin's Boobie cake and baked the (brownie) batter in a pyrex bowl. We baked the rest of the batter in a round pan.
The brownies in the round pan were for the pigs. For those who are unfamiliar with the cake pop/ball process, I'll give you a quick run-down. You take your baked cake, crumble it up, add icing, mix it all up, form balls, and dip them in candy coating. They are really quite delicious!
We formed the cake/brownie balls and stuck them in the freezer so they would hold their shape. We had some trouble putting the sticks in the balls without them splitting, so we made most of them into cake balls instead of pops.
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| Brownie balls in the freezer |
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| Melting the Candy Melts for coating the brownie balls |
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| What a mess! |
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| Making the pops and balls |
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| Creepy-eyed green buggers |
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| Steph adding details to the pigs |
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| Bird brownie pre-icing |
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| First layer of icing plus the beak |
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| The beginnings of the eyes |
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| Finished Angry Bird brownie cake! |
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| Finished brownie balls |
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| Oh for crying out loud, look at these little delicious buggers! |
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| Finished pig pops |
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| The birthday boy! (Don't mind the chalk all over him. He was at work all day and we surprised him!) |
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| Cute, right? And delicious! |
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| Steph and Dave! |
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| Happy birthday, Dave! |
