Cookie Monster
This was my youngest son's first birthday cake. I haven't claimed copyright on it so go for your life. He ended up over 15 inches tall.
He was made by layering 5 chocolate cakes together with chocolate cream (I bought them at the shop, shaping and decorating was tough enough without having to bake the darn things as well - and that way I knew they cakes were right for the job and not going to flop or rise too much, etc) the two at the bottom were hollowed out in the middle and he had cookies inside him as well. Then I carved away everything that I thought wasn't a cookie monster to get the 3D shape. The cake in front of him was made with the cut out circles that came from the centre of the main cake when I hollowed them out for the inside cookies, and his legs were just made with some off-cuts from sculpting his upper body/head.
Sculpting cakes has some disadvantages, for one thing, you have so much left over cake! But if you turn them into small lamington-type cakes to put on a plate at the party it's not so bad - they just won't all be evenly shaped. Another disadvantage is that the hardest part is trying to get the icing to stick to the crumby pieces of cake that have been cut to shape as they don't have that slight crust effect. I found the easiest way to combat that is to make up a thin runny icing dyed the same colour as the main colour that will be on top, and spread it over and let it seep in a little bit to kind of seal the crumbs in place and give the main icing something to stick to.
The icing on this one was sweet whipped cream dyed blue, unfortunately to get the right shade of blue I had to use so much colouring that everyone that ate it was complaining about pooping green the next day! Hehe! Whipped cream is very easy to brush with a fork to get the fur effect, but it doesn't colour well. The eyes are big round marshmellows. The cookies are just a bulk pack of little choc chip biscuits. Several were already broken so I made use of that by making it look like he'd already eaten heaps and sprinkling the crumbs down the front of him. It tasted good, looked good, and became a talking point for quite some time.
Good luck with it.
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