Stand-Up Cuddly Be…
Crawling with Gifts! Cake
Arrange crisped rice cereal treat packages wrapped in melted candy and white ribbons around a party-hat-wearing birthday celebrant, shaped from a Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan cake.
Ingredients:
- Easy-Add White Candy Melts® Candy Add to shopping list White Candy Melts® Candy
- Easy-Add Copper Icing Color (light skin tone) Add to shopping list Copper Icing Color (light skin tone)
- Easy-Add Red-Red Icing Color Add to shopping list Red-Red Icing Color
- Easy-Add Royal Blue Icing Color Add to shopping list Royal Blue Icing Color
- Easy-Add Black Icing Color Add to shopping list Black Icing Color
- Easy-Add Lemon Yellow Icing Color Add to shopping list Lemon Yellow Icing Color
- Easy-Add Garden Candy Color Set Add to shopping list Garden Candy Color Set
- Easy-Add Primary Candy Colors Set Add to shopping list Primary Candy Colors Set
- 3 batches Favorite crisped rice cereal treats
- Sugar cone
- cornstarch
Makes:
Cake serves 12; each gift serves 1.
Tools:
- Easy-Add Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan Set Add to shopping list Stand-Up Cuddly Bear Pan Set
- Easy-Add 8 x 2 in. Square Pans Add to shopping list 8 x 2 in. Square Pans
- Easy-Add Tip: 3 Add to shopping list Tip: 3
- Easy-Add Tip: 5 Add to shopping list Tip: 5
- Easy-Add Tip: 16 Add to shopping list Tip: 16
- Easy-Add Plastic Dowel Rods Add to shopping list Plastic Dowel Rods
- Easy-Add Cooling Grid Add to shopping list Cooling Grid
- Easy-Add Cake Boards Add to shopping list Cake Boards
- Easy-Add Fanci-Foil Wrap Add to shopping list Fanci-Foil Wrap
- 5 ft. needed per pkg 1/2 in. wide white ribbon
- Toothpick
Instructions:
Step 1
Prepare cereal treat recipes; press into 2 square pans, 1 3/4 in. high. Unmold and cut into eight 3 1/2 in. squares for gifts; reserve excess treats to use for hands.
Step 2
Bake and cool bear cake using firm-textured batter such as pound cake. Trim off ears, muzzle and arms.
For arms, cut dowel rods to 4 in. long; insert at shoulder level. Using reserved cereal treats, form hands at ends of dowel rods and insert.
Lightly ice face area and mark facial features with toothpick. Outline and pipe in mouth, tongue and eyes with tip 3. Build up nose, fingers and toes with tip 5.
Cover face, body, arms, legs and overalls with tip 16 stars. Outline and pipe in 1 in. diameter buttons with tip 3 (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch).
Overpipe rim and add dot buttonholes with tip 3. For party hat, cut sugar cone to 3 in. high and ice smooth.
Attach on head with dots of icing. Add tip 16 pull-out star pompom and brim. Pipe tip 3 number.
Step 3
Using candy colors, tint portions of melted white candy pink, green, violet, blue and yellow.
Cover cereal treat gifts with melted candy; let set. Cut 24 in. ribbon to wrap around each gift; make bows using 36 in. ribbon; Attach with
melted candy.
Position gifts around baby.
