I know honeypie's birthday was 2 months ago but i thought i'd post some pictures of the cake I made.... (mainly for katherine whose little one loves ponyo as much as honeypie does!!)
There was one major mistake and i thought i'd just tell you about it now ...
what a bad and silly oversite on my part...but that is what decorating at 3 am does... i totally forgot to put in reinforcing dowels in the cake and that is why we have a green bucket that seems to be wrinkling downwards... :( i cant believe i would do such a thing.... bummer.
BUT anyhow... it was a lovely birthday and honeypie loved the cake!
PONYO IN HER GREEN BUCKET!
I used 3, 9" inch round cakes...
stacked them on top of each other with vanilla buttercream frosting
Then came the fondant... i used a light green gel to color the fondant
Rolled it out ...
covered the cake with it...
I added light blue to the butter cream on placed it on top of the cake for water...
NOW PLEASE INSERT DOWELS INTO THE CAKE HERE AT THIS POINT...
;)
now for PONYO...
i made the body out of rice krispie treats and melted marshmallows...
I covered the body with flesh colored fondant and red fondant
and placed her on top of the cake ...I added a handle to the bucket and eyes and hair to ponyo...
The cake was a great flavour of vanilla with vanilla buttercream and chocolate chips... mmmmmm
here is some crafts we made during the party...
finger puppets on a stick of ponyo and totoro
we also made totoro birthday hats out of card stock paper...
and we had all the kids work on an underwater collaged mural. We pasted paper on a wall.
It was a great day filled with dancing, playing, craft making, candy sushi making, and cake eating!!!
ps katherine... thanks for reading!!!
^_^ ~birdycake
That's friggin amazing!!!
ReplyDelete:D what a cool cake! I love the ponyo sneaking out the top :D unluckily for me my little one was with me when I read your blogpost, and now we have totoro hats and ponyo and totoro puppets being requested, lol. We have just broken up from school for a week so I have no doubt these will be a craft activity for us this week! Thank you so much for posting :D
ReplyDeletethanks Katherine and zavtrak! it was fun making it ...even if we had a couple of "oops" moments!! im thinking of more ponyo things to make since it fits so well with summer... im thinking painted shells as a memory game all based on ponyo. i will make them with honeypie and post them for you katherine! have fun crafting with your little one!! :)
ReplyDeleteOMG! This is brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThanks! (~_~)
ReplyDeleteWowza...that cake looks AWESOME and so true to the animation! Forget about the wrinkles. I ran across your site looking for Ponyo items or activities, since the kiddos just saw the movie a few days ago, and my 4 year old is now watching it for the 3rd time! Sadly, I couldn't find much out there as far as t-shirts, etc. I guess I could get creative...hmmm.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Katie for stopping by! :) We are huge miyazaki fans here! If you have not watched "my neighbor totoro" ... you and the kiddos must! we made some crafts for both ponyo and totoro here...
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I know... not much in terms of items to buy... so yes... get crafting!! ;)