Robot Cake

Lover of all things mechanical and sugary? Prefer interaction with machines to interaction with people? Funfetti fan? This is the cake for you.

Bake your delicious cake of choice (hint: choose Funfetti) in a 13x9" pan, according to the directions on the box. If you want to be fancy, bake it from scratch. Let it cool completely, and flip it out onto a sheet.

Apologies for the abysmal lighting. This all happened late at night in a sleepwalking induced cake-a-thon. Just kidding--I have a terrible flash so I tried not to use it.

Cut off a chunk of cake about 4-5" from one end. Separate the chunk, bisect it, and arrange the two pieces side by side to form a roboty-looking head with a rounded edge.

Now use a large knife to cut off the rounded top of the cake and make it nice and flat.

Grab some food coloring and make a few bowls of different colored frosting. Just mix 2 or 3 drops of food coloring in with your vanilla or cream cheese frosting. We used a whole tub for blue frosting (the base color), and split the other tub between pink and green for decoration.

Use a frosting knife or spatula and apply the base color to the top and sides of the robot.

Put your accent color frosting in ziploc bags, close them, and snip a tiny piece off the corner to make a homemade piping bag. Go to town on the cake--we made some circuit boards, random buttons, piping, a robot face, etc. A single candle acts as an antenna in the head. We named our robot according to the initials and age of the birthday boy -- the MD25. As you can see, he was pleased.