Our house is full of small furry creatures with slightly creepy giant eyes. All three girls love beanie Ty Beanie Boos and avidly collect them so we have rather a lot in the house. It was obvious that the twins both love a Beanie Boo birthday cake for their birthday. One loves cats and the other loves monkeys so I decided to make them a cake each based on their favourite toys. It actually turned out to be a really simple cake to make and they loved the end result.
As I was making two cakes I made a large batch of cake mix using this Disney Frozen Birthday cake recipe. Then I halved it putting cocoa powder and a teaspoon of orange essence and some grated orange zest into one to make a chocolate orange cake for the monkey. The other I added a teaspoon of vanilla essence into the other. I baked these in a half sphere cake tin but you could use a circular cake tin and it would still look great. I then used a muffin tin and made 4 small circles of cake for the ears and nose of the monkey and the nose of the cat.
What You Will Need To Make A Monkey Beanie Boo Cake
- 1 round chocolate cake
- 3 cupcakes with the top sliced off
- chocolate butter icing
- vanilla butter icing
- Liquorice allsorts
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- Shape the cake base into a monkey’s face. This was very easy using the large cake. Make two circles for ears and one large one in the middle at the bottom for the nose.
- Used a spatula to spread the chocolate icing roughly on the cake to make it look like fur.
- Make a lighter shape over the nose and two round circles for the eyes.
- Stick on two yellow liquorice Allsorts for the eyes.
- The finishing touch was to use a thin piping nozzle to pipe the nose and a smiley mouth.
If I was going to do this cake again I would use a piece of fondant and cut it into shape for the face as this would look neater
What You Will Need To Make A Beanie Boo Cat Cake
- 1 round cake
- 1 cupcake
- vanilla buttercream
- pink and black fondant icing
- liquorice allsorts
How To Make A Beanie Boo Cat Birthday Cake
The cat beanie Boo cake was slightly harder to decorate.
- Used a large round cake with a small circle of cake in the middle for the nose.
- Pipe vanilla buttercream onto the cake base and make it look like fur using a star-shaped nozzle
- Add it all over the cake including the nose.
- Make 2 cats ears using the fondant icing, matching the pattern of the Muffin the Beanie Boo.
- Stick two pink liquorice Allsorts on for the eyes and a pink jelly liquorice Allsorts cut into the shape of a cat nose.
- Roll out some pink fondant icing into thin strips and make a mouth and whiskers.
It was a lot quicker to decorate the cakes than I thought it would be. The liqourice allsorts made it look really realistic. I did try using a silver icing pen to make the eyes look a bit sparkly like a real beanie Boo but I don’t think it added much to the overall effect.
The finished cakes worked well for twins as they were a theme but also reflected their different personalities but you could easily make one cake on its own.
Summary: The Cakes Were delicious!
The cakes turned out so cute and the girls really loved them. We’ll definitely be making these again!
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