Carrying His Own Weight Cake
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Step 1
Make cookies in advance: Roll out dough and cut 2 tiered cake cookies, cut off top tier.
Step 2
Use knife to cut a 5 in. diameter circle cookie. Bake and cool all cookies.
Step 3
To make barbell, cut one dowel rod to 4 1/2 in. long. Attach to 12 in. dowel rod with glue stick; let dry.
Step 4
Apply glue on foil and wrap around dowel rod. Attach tiered cookie weights to dowel rod with melted candy.
Step 5
Pipe-in weights with tip 2A (smooth with finger dipped in cornstarch). Let set.
Step 6
For round cookie head, pipe tip 3 outline eyes, tip 4 dot nose; outline and pipe-in tip 3 teeth.
Step 7
Cover face and ears with tip 16 stars; add tip 4 pull-out hair. Ice cake sides smooth.
Step 8
Outline t-shirt with tip 3. Cover shorts, t-shirt, arms and neck with tip 16 stars.
Step 9
Pipe tip 3 zigzag waistband on shorts.
Step 10
Pipe tip 21 star bottom border.
Step 11
Position head cookie and barbells on cake.