Willy Nilly Silly Ol' Bear

Well, I guess since Big Bear shared the story of the birthday cake he made me, I might as well tell you about the one I made for him last year. Not this year's cake, oh no, that one was a hot mess and there is no photographic evidence of it. Thank goodness he's such a good sport about it. Anyway, Le Big Bear is a big fan of Winnie the Pooh. Knowing this I set out to make him an unforgettable birthday cake and I think I succeeded pretty darn well. Now, we all know that I can't draw. Like, at all. But I figured out an ingenious way to draw Winnie on the cake with some balloons and the hubs, well, he loved it.

I'm not going to bore you with the details of what the cake was and how I made it. You all can probably already figure out that it was a box mix. But to make the bear I went on Google and searched for a decent picture of Winnie the Pooh. Once I found on that I was happy with I sized it to fit on a 1/8 sheet cake (half of a 9x13 cake roughly). I printed it out and cut out the image VERRRRRRY carefully. At this point, the cake is frosted with the final layer of buttercream, but none of the edge piping, words, or anything else were on there yet. I laid the image on the cake and made sure that I would have enough room for balloons and a message. As you can see, there was just barely room. I traced around the edge of the cut out image with a toothpick. You don't want to go super duper deep into the frosting, but deep enough that when you lift off the paper you will still see the outline. Once the outline was finished I lifted up the cut out and drew with a toothpick all of the lines that are in the black color just how they looked in the printed picture. Next step is to take a small piping/writing tip and fill in the toothpick lines with your outline color. Keep the printed picture handy for reference. After the outline is done, fill in with the appropriate colors. Voila! It looks like I really can draw!