Friday Treats {3} - Hello Kitty Cake

So this past weekend we celebrated by middle daughter's birthday.  She is a total Hello Kitty nut, so Mom being tight on money at the time, decided to create one from scratch.  It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.  Below are a few pictures of  the completed results.  Enjoy.

Ingredients: 

• 2 white cake mixes, prepared per package directions
• 2 containers of cream cheese frosting
• food coloring, red, blue and green
• cookie cutters: triangle shaped, circle shaped, and heart shaped
• circle 8 inch pan and small cake pan (6 x 10)
• toothpicks

Directions: 

1. Bake cakes per directions. I added red food die to cake mix to make the cake pink. (two circle cakes and one rectangle cake. Let cool.)
2. Assemble layer cake with circle cakes with frosting between layers and on sides, but not on top until after you score the face of the cake in step 3.
3. Use the cookie cutters to make the ears ( 4 layers cut with the triangle cookie cutter), the bow (4 layers cut with the heart cookie cutters), eyes (2 circle cutter) out of the rectangle cake.  Use the circle cookie cutter for the nose and eyes to dig a small wells in the top of the cake for nose and eyes. 
4. Then using the hearts as a template, cut around them and cut the top layer away once you've taken the bow off, creating a well for the bow.  The scoop frosting in to use as glue for when you add the pieces.
5. Now it's time to  assemble the ears. 2 layers per ear with frosting between.  Then coat the sides and press them up against the circle cake in the approriate places.  
6. Now it's time to put the bow on.  (Word to the wise here, you are going to need another piece of cake under the bow where it hangs over. This is easy. Just cut the corner off the sheet cake and place it under the overhang.)  This is where I use toothpicks to hold the bow in place. 
7. Next place the eyes and nose cutouts in their wells.  
8. Once this is all done it's time to finish frosting the bow (with pink - which is just a small bit of red food coloring in the cream cheese frosting.)  Then frost the nose yellow or orange.  Finally mix all you left over colored frosting to make a dark gray frosting for the eyes and whiskers.  I used a toothpick to draw them on. 

While this isn't the most professional looking cake out there, it did please my daughter. 

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