Spongebob and Friends Cake

by Natasha Vaughn
(Alexandria, TN)

Spongebob and Friends Cake

The first step of this Spongebob cake was to make a batch of royal icing tinted different colors and piped the "flowers" and the pineapple top and seaweeds. I used a tip 3 for the flowers and a leaf tip for the pineapple top and other seaweeds.

I heated Rice Krispy treat in the microwave and molded it freehand into the pineapple shape. I let this harden for a couple of days.

I bake an 8 inch round and a 6 inch round cake with 2 layers each and iced in sky blue and royal blue mixed buttercream then stacked them with straws in the bottom tier for support. I covered the rice krispy treats pineapple with orange/brown buttercream.

I used a diamond shaped cutter to mark the pineapple and then piped the brown lines using a tip 2 and brown buttercream. I placed the pineapple on a cake board cut to match the size of the bottom of the pineapple. I stuck a bendable straw into the side of the pineapple and then covered it with blue fondant. I cut out fondant the the shape of the door and window and stuck them in the appropriate place.

I placed the pineapple on the cake using straws under for support and hammered a sharpened dowel rod down through the pineapple and both cakes and into the cake board.

I added the flowers and seaweed around the cake. I wrote the birthday message on three of the smoothest seaweeds using edible markers from Americolor. I stuck the seaweeds into the top of the cake. To secure the pineapple top I squirted some royal icing into the hole made by the dowel rod and stuck the pineapple top pieces. I piped a border with the same blue buttercream using a star tip.

I crushed up graham crackers fine and mixed with some brown sugar. I sprinkled this around the cake for "sand". As the finishing touch I added purchased plastic Spongebob characters.