ENTERTAINING: Teletubby Birthday Cake

I made this birthday cake for the boys' birthday party. It is a Teletubby Birthday Cake!

It is a two layer sheet cake. The bottom layer is chocolate cake and the top layer is white cake and the Teletubby House Mound layer is also chocolate cake.

I made all the figures out of gum paste. Yes, they do look like a child made them with play dough. No, I will never be Sylvia Weinstock. But it was great fun to make and everybody loved it! My fingers were died a reddish purple for a few days after I finished making them up.

I used toothpicks to give the Teletubbies a little support. I also used them to help their antennaes stand up. And I used a toothpick for Po's Scooter. Then I used wooden kabob sticks to give support to the speaker, sun and windmill. I was glad that the cake was two layers thick because it helped support the windmill.

For the windmill and the center of the speaker, I had to make a gold color. This was the hardest dye job to fabricate. I obviously used yellow and added some black and maybe a dab of red. Then I found out I had some pearlized white powder so I brushed the areas and that helped give them a gold sheen. I was excited about that.

I used black foodoodler pens to draw in the pens and the cow pattern on Dipsy's hat. The black on the hat ran and spread into a green color but it was okay. I had made these figures a couple weeks before the party so I am not surprised it ran. It was also very hot and humid during that time so I am sure that contributed to it.

I made the little brown rabbit by molding it in a chocolate mold. It was actually the first one I made of all the figurines. I thought it would be an easy introduction to the world of gum paste.




Tinky Winky and La La


Dipsy and Po


Po's Scooter


Dipsy's Hat, La La's Ball, Tinky Winky's Bag, and the Speaker