This cuddly Teddy Bear Cake is almost too cute to eat! Perfect for a first birthday party or baby shower, this cake is made using the Wilton Teddy Bear Cake Pan and a box of your favorite cake mix. Use specialty decorating tip 233 (otherwise known as the grass tip) to create the fur, then personalize your cake with a heart in the color of your choosing. An easy cake for beginning decorators, this bear cake is an un-bear-ably cute way to welcome a little one into the family.
Ingredients:
- Favorite cake mix or recipe (about 4 – 5 cups of cake batter)
- White Decorator Icing
- Rose Icing Color
- Brown Icing Color
- Red-Red Icing Color
- Black Icing Color
- Cake Release
Supplies:
- Teddy Bear Pan
- Cooling Grid
- Disposable Decorating Bags
- Round Decorating Tip 5 (2 needed)
- Round Decorating Tip 3
- Specialty Decorating Tip 233
- Round Decorating Tip 4
- Round Decorating Tip 2
- 9 in. Tapered Spatula
Techniques:
Instructions:
Step 1 Bake cake. Prepare cake mix following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cake in teddy bear pan.
Step 2 Tint icing. Tint 2 cups icing light brown, ¼ cup icing medium brown and ¼ cup icing dark brown using color combinations provided.
Combine Brown and Red-Red icing colors to get light brown color shown. Combine Brown, Red-Red and a touch of Black icing colors to get medium brown color shown. Combine Brown, Red-Red and Black icing colors to get dark brown color shown.
Using Black icing color, tint 1/8 cup icing black. Using Rose icing color, tint 1/8 cup icing rose.
Reserve 1/8 cup icing white.
Step 3 Decorate cake. Prepare decorating bags with tips and icing as follows:
- Tip 5 and rose icing
- Tip 2 and white icing
- Tip 4 and dark brown icing
- Tip 5 and medium brown icing
- Tip 233 and light brown icing
- Tip 3 and black icing
Using medium brown bag with tip 5, pipe pads, inner ear and muzzle; smooth using tapered spatula. Using dark brown bag with tip 4, pipe eyes, nose and mouth; smooth using tapered spatula.
Using black bag with tip 3, pipe pupils. Using white bag with tip 2, pipe highlights in eyes.
Using rose bag with tip 5, pipe heart; smooth using tapered spatula.
Using light brown bag with tip 233, use pull-out grass technique to cover body with fur.
How’d your teddy bear cake turn-out? Let us know in the comments below or show us your cuddly creation by tagging us on Instagram @Wiltoncakes.
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Super-Cute and Adorable Teddy Bear Cake
Equipment
- Teddy Bear Cake Pan
- 2 Round Decorating Tip 5
- Tapered Spatula
Ingredients
- 4-5 cups Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe (about 4 – 5 cups of cake batter)
- White Decorator Icing
- Rose Icing Color
- Brown Icing Color
- Red-Red Icing Color
- Black Icing Color
Instructions
- Bake cake. Prepare cake mix following recipe instructions. Bake and cool cake in teddy bear pan.
- Tint icing. Tint 2 cups icing light brown, ¼ cup icing medium brown and ¼ cup icing dark brown using color combinations provided.
- Combine Brown and Red-Red icing colors to get light brown color shown.
- Combine Brown, Red-Red and a touch of Black icing colors to get medium brown color shown.
- Combine Brown, Red-Red and Black icing colors to get dark brown color shown.
- Using Black icing color, tint 1/8 cup icing black. Using Rose icing color, tint 1/8 cup icing rose.
- Reserve 1/8 cup icing white.
- Decorate cake. Prepare decorating bags with tips and icing as follows:
- Using medium brown bag with tip 5, pipe pads, inner ear and muzzle; smooth using tapered spatula.
- Using dark brown bag with tip 4, pipe eyes, nose and mouth; smooth using tapered spatula.
- Using black bag with tip 3, pipe pupils. Using white bag with tip 2, pipe highlights in eyes.
- Using rose bag with tip 5, pipe heart; smooth using tapered spatula.
- Using light brown bag with tip 233, use pull-out grass technique to cover body with fur.
- Serve and enjoy!
Could you use the grass piping tip for piping chestnut cream in the traditional way ?
This bear cake was so cute! It sure reminded me of all those Wilton pans I owned and all those character cakes I made back in the 60’s and 70’s. It would have saved me allot of time to use that grass tip but I was pretty much self taught and not so many videos to tutor you. Thanks for sharing that with us, it made me smile.
Again, no captions on your videos? Do you feel people who have trouble hearing don’t want to bake, too?
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