Teddy Bear Cake – Bakerella

I’m pretty thrilled with how this little teddy bear turned out. It’s the first time I’ve tried to make and adorn a 3 dimensional embellished cake like this, nevertheless I imagine he appears beary cute!

The inspiration for the shape received right here after I used to be actually making one different cake. I had baked a two-layer, six-inch cake and made some cupcakes with the extra batter from the recipe.

As soon as I set them out to relax, all of them regarded one factor like this. I immediately observed a “bear” with little cupcake legs and ears.

I used this delicious cake recipe and it makes the correct amount for an entire teddy bear.

One 6-inch cake layer
One 5-inch cake layer
6 cupcakes

Throughout the pic above, I baked the cupcakes with out liners and greased the cupcake tin with shortening, positioned strips of parchment paper inside and greased as soon as extra to take care of them in place. Then I coated it with cocoa to help forestall sticking.

You possibly don’t need the strips, nevertheless I didn’t have to take any potentialities on having trouble eradicating a cupcake since I wished all six for the bear type.

After you’ve gotten your desserts and cupcakes baked, go ahead and mix up some buttercream frosting.

I used this frosting recipe to make one batch of vanilla buttercream after which made a second batch of buttercream and added 1/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa to the confectioner’s sugar to make chocolate frosting.

Tint a small amount from the batch of vanilla buttercream with pink icing coloration for cheeks, one different small amount with blue for a bowtie, and save a little bit of of the vanilla buttercream for the eyes.

Then use the remaining vanilla buttercream and mix in a small amount of the chocolate buttercream to create a lighter brown coloration for the abdomen, nostril, paws and ears.

To start out out creating the bear type, use a sharp knife to remove a small curved portion from the larger 6-inch cake layer. Save the curved cake scrap for use later.

Push the 5- and 6-inch cake layers collectively to kind the head and physique. Place them on an enormous rectangular sturdy flooring. It’s best to make the most of a baking sheet for instance. I used an rectangular heavy-duty cake board.

Frost an house for the cheeks with pink buttercream and the world for the abdomen with the sunshine brown buttercream. Frost over an enormous house so that you might need the freedom to make the abdomen and cheeks any measurement you want when piping the furry frosting later.

Use a spherical cutter to cut curved sections from two of the cupcakes. These will end up being positioned on the head for ears. Save any scraps for use later.

Use a small spherical cutter to softly press into the pink frosting to mark the place the cheeks will go.

Now in order so as to add further frosting. Go ahead and unfold a thin layer of the chocolate frosting on the uncovered cake layers. Then frost a thin layer on two further of the cupcakes.

Use the lighter brown frosting to frost the tops of the reduce cupcakes to be used for the ears. Then frost the tops of the remaining two cupcakes to be used for the legs. For these, add further frosting to attempt to create a flat and clear excessive.

For the bear snout, I ended up piping a spherical mound of the sunshine brown frosting onto a sheet of wax paper after which used an offset spatula to help clear it out. Place the mound of frosting inside the freezer to company up and it is advisable use the spatula to help scrape and type it far more.

Place the snout in place on the bear’s head after which barely tuck two chocolate wafers beneath … in place for eyes.

Now you possibly can start piping the darker chocolate frosting using a Wilton #18 adorning tip for the bear’s fur. Use the spherical impression as a info to pipe spherical for fully fashioned cheeks.

Pipe frosting near the bear’s neck after which place the two chocolate frosted cupcake arms in place. Apply frosting on the underside of the cupcakes to help protected them to the physique.

I needed the legs to be coping with forward/up, so I carved away just a few of the cake after which connected the cupcake to the cake with frosting and inserted a straw by the cupcake and into the cake to help protected it. It labored properly ample, nevertheless essentially the most safe issue could possibly be to cut proper via the cake so the cupcake legs could possibly be resting on the ground beneath.

Preserve piping all through the physique, making certain to depart the sunshine brown frosting of the ears, spherical abdomen and bottom paws seen.

He’s coming collectively.

For each paw, gently press a chocolate wafer rounded side up and three chocolate morsels pointed side down into the frosting.

Cut back considered one of many chocolate wafers just about in half and repair it in place for the nostril with a small amount of frosting. Pipe small dots on the eyes with just a few of the reserved vanilla buttercream.

Then tint a small amount of the remaining chocolate frosting a darker brown and pipe on a sweet little smile.

Now let’s make a little bit of bowtie with blue buttercream and some of the leftover cake scraps.

Cut back the reserved cake scraps in sections and use them to make a little bit of bowtie. Pipe the sides using a Wilton #16 adorning tip whereas holding each bit between your fingers. As quickly as the sides are piped, place the objects in place after which proceed piping until the rest of the cake is roofed in blue buttercream.

So unbearably cute I would squeeze him!