SpongeBob Birthday Cake

I made this Spongebob Cake for my son's 7th Birthday Party. He wanted SpongeBob with his Pineapple House, his pet snail Gary and his friends Patrick Star and Squidward Tenticles. I decided to make the whole scene into a birthday celebration, with little party hats, cupcakes, cake and party blowers.

I decided to add a bit of irony and let Squidward jump out of a birthday cake. I also made Plankton who is seen running away from the party with a Krabby Patty.

It took me 35 long hours to complete the cake, but at the end it was worth it, just for the look on my son's face!

SpongeBob and Friends Birthday Cake

The square cake is a Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream icing and covered with fondant. The pineapple house is a Vanilla Cake with Coconut Buttercream icing and covered with fondant. I baked it in a giant muffin pan and then sculpted it into a pineapple.


VANILLA CAKE

2 1/2 cups (625ml) Self Raising Flour
2 cups (500ml) Sugar
4 large Eggs
1 cup (250ml) Milk
1/4 cup (65ml) Vegetable Oil
1 tsp (5ml) Pure Vanilla Extract

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Mix the eggs and sugar together till thick.
Add the flour, milk, oil and vanilla
Beat till smooth and creamy. Pour into two prepared round cake tins (20cm)

Bake for 30-40 mins. It is done when a test pin comes out clean.

LET THE CAKE COOL COMPLETELY

VANILLA BUTTERCREAM ICING

2 cups (500ml) Icing Sugar
125g Unslated Soft Butter
1 tsp Vanilla extract

COCONUT BUTTERCREAM ICING

2 cups (500ml) Icing Sugar
125g Unslated Soft Butter
1 tsp Coconut extract
You can add a tbsp schreded coconut

All figurines are hand sculpted and totally edible.

 

SpongeBob with fondant

To set the party mood I made Spongebob with a funky party hat and a plate of yummy cupcakes.



SpongeBob's Pineapple house from fondant

Patrick made with fondant

Instead of giving Patrick a party hat, I decided to put a dripping ice cream cone on his head. If you watch Spongebob, you will know why ;) I thought this just added to his personality.



Squidward made with fondant



Squidward jumping out of a birthday cake, now isn't that something! I thought it would be a funny twist. The cake was made with covering a small round plastic container with fondant. Let dry. If you want this to be edible, remove the container. I decorated the cake with royal icing, which basically dries instantly and hard!

Gary the snail made from fondant

Gary the Snail

I made a little bowl for Gary, so he can have his piece of cake too!  

Plankton with Krabby Patty

Plankton with Krabby Patty and Jelly fish

I just love Plankton, so I decided to invite him to the party, little did I know he was going to run away with a Kraby Patty! Maybe the jellyfish stung him on his way out....anyway we all know Plankton is 1% evil and 99% hot gas :) so he might still return the patty!

I must say I really enjoyed creating the cake, it was hard work but it was worth it in the end.

SpongeBob Party Invites with SpongeBob Cookies

I just wanted to show you how the finished SpongeBob Party Invites looked like that I made for my son's Birthday Party. Each child recieved a cool SpongeBob cookie with their invite!

SpongeBob Sugar Cookies with fondant

SpongeBob Cookies

I made these SpongeBob Squarepants Cookies for my son's class as part of his invites for his SpongeBob Birthday Party. They were such a hit among the kids and the parents wished they got some too... ;)

I know this blog is all about easy, and this is pretty easy to make but I must admit it is time consuming, so do start early and also remember the fondant/sugar paste parts can be made in advance and stored in a airtight container till later.



Spongebob Cookies with fondant

SPONGEBOB COOKIES

2 1/2 cups Self Raising Flour
1 cup Butter, softened
1 1/2 cups White Sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp Vanilla extract

Preheat oven to (190 degrees C (375 degrees F) C
Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.
You can use immediately!
Roll out the dough on a well floured survice till about 3mm thick. Use cookie cutter to cut out rectangular shapes.
Place on prepared baking tray and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until golden. Cool on wire rack.

Fondant SpongeBob Cookie

 DECORATING SPONGEBOB COOKIES

You will need premade fondant in Yellow, White, Red and Blue. I flavoured the Yellow fondant with banana flavouring. You can also use sugar paste for this - it will dry harder.
A black edible marker
Edible glue

SpongeBob's body
Roll out your yellow fondant about 2mm thick, cut into rectangles with knife or cookie cutter - preferably the cookie cutter that you used for your cookies.
Using a tool with round tip, make some "sponge holes" in his body.

SpongeBob's face
Take some yellow fondant and form a nose by rolling a small ball into a small "log"
Roll out the red fondant 1mm thick and cut out circles. Then cut the circles in half and attach to SpongeBob' body with edible glue. This will be the mouth.
Cut out little ties from the red fondant.
Roll out white fondant till 1mm thick and cut out small strips and then cut it into small squares for his buck teeth. Stick teeth on mouth with edible glue.
Cut out small circles from white fondant and attach to SpongeBob's face with edible glue.
Take a small piece of blue fondant and roll into a little ball, flatten slightly. Stick onto the white of SpongeBob's eye with edible glue.

Spongebob's clothes
Cut small rectangles out of the white fondant attach onto SpongBob's body for a shirt. Stick the red tie onto the white shirt with edible glue.

Finishing touches
Use black edible marker to draw eye lashes and a dot on the blue fondant for his pupil.
Let dry overnight and enjoy!

SpongeBob Cookies

Quick and Easy Vanilla Passion Fruit Cake

Are you looking for a delicious cake that is quick and easy to make and fit for any occassion? Well look no further. My Vanilla Passion Fruit Cake is easy to make, taste heavenly and it will look like you have spend hours in the kitchen.



Cake fit for a tea party

Vanilla Sponge Cake

2 1/2 cups (625ml) Self Raising Flour
2 cups (500ml) Sugar
4 large Eggs
1 cup (250ml) Milk
1/4 cup (65ml) Vegetable Oil
1 tsp (5ml) Pure Vanilla Extract

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.
Mix the eggs and sugar together till thick.
Add the flour, milk, oil and vanilla
Beat till smooth and creamy. Pour into two prepared round cake tins (20cm)

Bake for 30-40 mins. It is done when a test pin comes out clean.

LET THE CAKE COOL COMPLETELY

Icing

2 cups (500ml) Icing Sugar
125g Unslated Soft Butter
100g Passion Fruit pulp (fresh or canned)

Mix the butter and icing sugar together till light and fluffy, add the passion fruit pulp and beat lightly.

Wait till the cake is completely cool, assemble and ice with Icing.

Now this is where the fun part comes in, the cake is already wonderfuly decadent, but if you are making it for a special occassion then you have to add something to make it look like you have spend hours working on it (get my drift). I added some different sugar flowers that I have made and experimented with, you can either make a few or alot of sugar flowers before hand (they keep well in an airtight container) or you can buy some, whatever works best for you.

Add the flowers and voila! you have a cake fit for any occassion.



Summer Flower Garden Cake

Fondant Hibiscus Flowers

Fondant Roses