Teddy Bears Picnic

My little Munchkin turned 3 recently and last Saturday we had a little get together for all her little friends and family. We had party bags, party food, a bouncy castle and 20 ice cream cupcakes plus  my new favourite bake, A Teddy Cake!

Here is the tutorial for the bake :-)

You will need
A ready mix sponge cake
or
Use the equal measure cake batter mix:
Weigh two eggs and then match the weight of the eggs with flour, sugar and butter. Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence and 1tsp of baking powder.
For the buttercream icing:
150g of butter and 300g icing sugar plus 1tsp of vanilla essence and 3/4 tsps of cocoa powder, I use a few tsps of milk to thin my icing to a nicer piping consistency.

Preheat the oven to 160.
Then make your cake batter pour into a circular tin about 20cm in diameter and leave just enough mix to also make two cupcakes.
Bake for approx 20-22mins for the cake and 16-18mins for the cupcakes

Make your buttercream and once the cake has baked and cooled cut away a quarter of the cupcakes to make chubby crescents and line up like ears on the top edge of the cake in the 10 to 2 position, use a little buttercream to stick them in place.

Pipe individual gems around the side edges of the cake and attached ears continue in a circular pattern leaving a circle in the centre of the face for the nose and mouth I used a ramekin left in the centre as I piped to help with the shape. Pipe in a continuous spirals for the ears and the circle in the centre. Make a heavier icing mix with icing sugar and a few drops of water then roll the icing into balls and squish gently with your thumb for the eyes add a little cocoa powder to this mix to make the nose and the centre of the eyes. I piped a little icing as a mouth also, and VOILA! So easy a child could do it too.

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