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Peo's 2007 Birthday Cake

For Peo's second birthday, I made her a cake with all of her favourite TV show characters (actually, I had to stop before making all of the Muppet Show characters and Fraggles, because I ran out of time and out of room on the cake). It turned out to be a good strategy for making an elaborate cake while caring for a toddler, because I was able to make the figures for two weeks in advance, then make the cake the day before the party and simply stick the characters on.

Because I had plenty of time in making the characters, I worked on several at a time, allowing bits to dry on one while working on another. I used skewers in styrofoam to provide support for elevated limbs and other precarious pieces while they dried. I also left some skewers in place while the pieces were stored on the kitchen counter to prevent them from falling over.

The characters are:

• Top Level
  • John and John puppets from They Might Be Giants Here Come The ABCs, sitting on a TV that says "Happy Birthday Peo"
  • Ernie and Bert from Sesame Street (Bert is holding a present, which is actually covering up a mark on the base fondant from putting him in a bad position originally)
• Middle/Bottom Level, Right to Left
  • The Wiggles: Murray, Jeff, Henry the Octopus, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Greg, Anthony, Wags the Dog, and Captain Feathersword
  • Sesame Street characters: Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Grover, and Oscar
  • Wallace, Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep

Pieces In Progress

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Finished Cake

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