It was little A’s second birthday this week, I can’t believe he’s 2 already! As he loves reading the Gruffalo and Gruffalo’s Child book’s I thought he would like a Gruffalo cake. It’s just a chocolate cake anyway, isn’t it?
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Gruffalo Birthday Cake
I scoured the internet and found this great red nose day Gruffalo cake, it looked perfect. Unfortunately I do not have a large square cake tin, I needed to put a normal nose back on the Gruffalo and there was no template for cutting out the Gruffalo head.
So I thought it would be useful to others if I made a little tutorial to correct this.
Gruffalo Cake Tutorial
I started off with two circular 8″ cakes filled with raspberry jam and buttercream. Cut the edge off one edge of each cake and move them together to make a longer shape to work on. Use some of the off cuts to fill in the gaps at the curved edges.
Cut Out Design
To make the template I used the Gruffalo’s Child book and the picture in the original tutorial to draw it. Click below to download the template for your own cake.
Lay the template on the cake and use a very sharp knife to cut round the template the ice the entire cake with chocolate buttercream.
Ice All Over
Use a fork to make hair-like marks over the face.
Make Facial Features
Make two orange oval shapes for eyes and place them as per the picture. Roll two small balls of black icing and add them on top of the orange eyes.
Roll out a long thin sausage of black fondant icing to create the mouth and two shorter sausages for eyebrows.
Create a small pink ball, stretch and squash into an oval. Place on top of the ear.
Roll a small ball of green icing to create a wart and place on the Gruffalo’s nose.
Make two fat sausages of white icing and roll thinner at one end, add them to the top of the Gruffalo’s head for his horns.
Make 5 small squares of white icing and place on the mouth as per the picture above.
Create a small white sausage and roll thin at one end and place the tusk on the mouth as per the picture.
Finally using purple icing make several triangular shapes and place along the back to create purple prickles.
Finished!
As you can see littlest love his Gruffalo birthday cake, it is the perfect birthday cake for a little Julia Donaldson fan! Plus this is such an easy Gruffalo cake to make!
Do you make your kid’s birthday cake’s?
Christina @ Ladybug Home says
This is just too cute. Copy link for future re-reading. Great job!
susankmann says
Aww what a cool cake and happy birthday to your little one. Mine is 3 next week. xx
Laura Lane of Harvest Lane Cottage says
Ooh! Too scary to eat! ~grin~
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FarZain says
What a cute cake! Happy birthday little one.
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Sarah - Craft Invaders says
What a fab cake Jenny – great tutorial. Pinning!
Sarah says
Amazing cake, looks very professional.
Crummy Mummy says
This is absolutely brilliant! #howtosunday
Sarah says
Wow, it looks great Jenny! My daughter has a birthday in February, I’ll have to see what she requests. Sara #howtosunday
Sara at Handy Herbs says
Great job, Jenny! It looks amazing! I do sometimes make them, but they are nowhere near as good as yours! I hope he had a lovely birthday 🙂 #HowToSunday
OneDizzyBee says
This is adorable! I don’t have children myself but I do make birthday cakes from time to time for friends and their kids, so this is something great to have in the box for future use. Thanks!
Lukeosaurus And Me says
I’m still in awe every time I see this pop up on social media or linkies. It’s amazing! 😀 Ray xx #HowToSunday
Adventures of Adam says
That is one amazing birthday cake. It looks like a piece of artwork rather than a cake!
Suz says
Wow this is amazing!!! You have skill! Suz x beauisblue.com
Lucy says
Amazing cake. And happy belated birthday to little A! I tried to make a first birthday cake for my son and it looked awful. But tasted good… Maybe we’ll give this a go for his next birthday! #letkidsbekids
Baby Isabella says
That’s an awesome Gruffalo cake! Well done! It’s my birthday too soon! Hope he had a great day! xx #LetskidsBeKids x
Let kids be kids says
That cake looks fab and relatively simple, though I’m not sure mine would look as good as yours. I like to make my children novelty cakes too, the only trouble is they all share a birthday, therefore three cakes and this year I may not have a kitchen to cook them in, but I have promised them a minion cake and a millennium falcon cake!! Uh, oh!
Hope he had a good birthday.
Thanks for sharing #LetKidsBeKids
Our Cherry Tree says
Wow! That looks amazing, I really should try this, we’re big fans of the Gruffalo in our house. #ToddlerApprovedTuesday #LetKidsBeKids
becky says
I love this Jenny! I would love to try it but think I would fail at the template part! ALthough god the monsters would HEART this!!!! #ToddlerApprovedTuesday
Su {Ethan & Evelyn} says
This is amazing! My kids went to see the Gruffalo play last year and they loved it! Well done Mamma! x #Letkidsbekids
Catherine @ Story Snug says
This cake is brilliant! You make it look so easy to make :o)