Pillsbury Doughboy Cake

by Shara
(Bartlesville, OK)

First I have to say that this was my VERY first time making a cake!

My mom is a professional cake decorator. She's made many wedding cakes. Over the years I've watched her decorate cakes and for her 52nd birthday I decided to give it a try to surprise her. :)

So here are my step-by-step instructions on how to make the cake I made .....

I started off by buying a 1974 Wilton Pillsbury Doughboy cake pan mold on-line, which measure 14"X8".

I coated the inside of the doughboy cake can with "Crisco Spray, with Pillsbury Flour". It was amazing! The cake never stuck.

I bought 1 box of Pillsbury Moist Supreme Devil's Food cake mix and baked it according to the directions on the box. I let the cake cool completely.
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Frosting:
3/4 cup shortening
2 lbs. powered sugar
2 cap fulls of butter flavoring
2 cap fulls of almond flavoring
1/2 cup water

Cut shortening into pieces in mixing bowl. Add powdered sugar and beat (you may want to place a towel around the bowl so powered sugar doesn't go everywhere).

Add butter and almond flavoring.

While mixing, slowly add water. Mix well on high until creamy. NOTE: Keep the frosting covered with Saran Wrap while frosting the cake so that it won't dry out.
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After making the frosting I dipped out two small bowls of frosting. To these bowls I added the Wiltons food coloring.

For the brown outline I bought Wiltons Brown Icing Color. For the doughboy blue color I bought Wiltons Royal Blue Icing Color.

For the decorating part I bought a box of Wiltons 12 inch Disposable Decorating Bags. My cake icing tips were: for outlining in brown, a #5 Round tip / for starring in white and blue, a #21 Open Star tip. I also bought some couplers (to hold the tip unto the bags).

After filling the bags I outlined doughboy's features in the brown frosting with the #5 Round tip first.

After that I star tipped all of the white areas with the #21 Open Star tip.

For his hat band I used the same #21 Open Star tip, but I just did stripes instead of stars.

After I was done with the white color, I washed the #21 Open Star tip and stuck it on the blue bag. Then I filled in all the blue areas of the doughboy.

For the knot on his neck tie, and just did a round swirl, making it look like a knot (I did the same thing for his nose, except in white).

For his eyes and button on his hat I squeezed out a LARGE star from the same #21 Open Star tip.

And ~VOILA~ you have a cute Pillsbury Doughboy cake! ;)

TIP: If you plan on decorating the cake the day before, I wouldn't add the blue frosting until hours before the party because it will bleed blue coloring onto the white frosting.

Note From Grandpa Mike

Shara:

This was your first cake?

Wow - you made a beautiful cake, so we've awarded your creation with 5 stars.

Thank you for the very detailed, step-by-step instructions. Now anyone can make this cake, thanks to you and the beautiful cake you made.

You've proven what I've said over and over again on this site - when it comes to kid birthday cakes, the main ingredient is your willingness to be creative and to just do it.

Remember, it's only cake. If it doesn't turn out right the first time, just do it over again.

Your colorful, fun cake was obviously fun to make and very rewarding - because this cake is going to be the hit of the party.

Shara, thank you once again for sharing your cake with us and for the detailed instructions.

And we'll be looking forward to seeing your next kid birthday cake creation.

Have FUN

Grandpa Mike
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