I sweetened the prize by adding on that I would make it an "Angry Birds: SPACE!!!!" cake and he was totally game. The next part of the mission was the obvious: begin scouring Pinterest. There are some seriously amazing Angry Birds cakes out there. Fo' real. My only issue was I really wanted to reflect the Angry Birds in SPACE, with their fancy face masks and capes and what have you. I had some totally awesome results:
*referring to my "lollipop meltdown", below.
1.) The Characters:
The night before I started my characters, I made a batch of Marshmallow Fondant (See directions here for Marshmallow Fondant). I divided it into small batches and mixed in colors: yellow, orange, red, purple, lime green. I left the majority white. I used the fondant for noses and eyes.
For my "Angry Birds in Space" characters, I decided I wanted to make my characters out of cake balls, versus making their bodies out of fondant. Bakerella's website is where I originally learned about the art of making cake balls. Googling "Cake Balls" or "Cake Pops" can yield many helpful tutorials as well. I made my cake balls with lowfat chocolate brownies and fudge icing. After the mixture had cooled, I shaped it into the characters and planets that I wanted:
In total I had: 4 round green pigs, 3 round red birds in different sizes, 1 large green bird, 1 triangle bird, 1 square bird, 1 long "log" that I poked to look like the three little birds, 2 "planets" (round balls with divots) and 3 rectangles to "protect" the pig.
After these had cooled in the freezer for about 4 hours (I had other stuff to do, they don't need to be in there THAT long...I'm just forgetful) I busted out the white, red, and green candy melts and got my bowls melted/my dip on. For the other colors, I used Wilton food dye in the white melts. I used Wilton's Edible Ink Pens for the eyes and pig nostrils, and at the last minute I made some fondant eggs.
2.) The Lollipop Meltdown:
I had this BRILLIANT idea of making a bright blue lollipop "Orbit" to stick in around the pigs. It's part of the game, the orbit...anyway, it would look TOTALLY awesome but I had never dabbled in candy making (I made caramel for the first time on Easter and this was about a week later...not much time to hone my skills). Instead of adding color AND a flavor (I had no fruit flavors on hand, just vanilla and almond), I added a packet of Kool aid. First Round, I added "Fruit Punch" (I was in a rush! The packet was blue!) and I got red:
I added lots of blue food coloring, but it was a lost cause and I think the excessive coloring made it not set well. Besides, I had no mold and I was winging it. There was purple (red +blue=purple!) lollipop crap everywhere! For round two, I got more serious. I made a mold out of aluminum foil (My brilliant boyfriend's idea! Where was he the first time around?) and found the berry blue KoolAid right next to the Fruit Punch.
So, I made it, it cracked when I peeled off the foil, I ran it under SUPER hot water and molded it into shape again but it was never strong enough to stand alone at room temp. I hope someone figures this out, I encourage you to make it!
3.) The Cake:
The cake was a dense white cake recipe called Nany's White Cake. I made it in a rectangular cake pan (I don't know the measurements of the pan, whoops!) shaped like an Iphone. I then iced it to look like an Iphone playing the game (I saw this online somewhere and couldn't find it when re-googling! If you know where it's from, please leave a link, it ruled!).
The slingshot was made from two long lollipop sticks haphazardly wrapped in majority of my fondant colored brown, and I made a black fondant sling. I didn't realize how HUGE it was until after I made it, and I was too lazy to rip it apart and change it. I just leaned it against the planet and called it "adding character".
4.) All Together now....
After everything was shaped, colored, given a face, and TRANSPORTED to the party (the scariest part), I popped it all together (I kept the characters off, assuming they'd all fall and smear the icing while I drove...like this pile of mini cupcakes I added from the freezer at the last minute to hold a little "Angry Birds in Space" Printout I had cut off their logo picture and taped on to a toothpick (is it copyright infringement if its for personal use and not for profit? I hope not!)
I would like to note that I left off everyone's head tuft of hair, as well as their cute little ears! I have a tendency to get way ahead of myself and tack on too many tasks and I forget the important stuff like ears! I hope you enjoy it anyway, I did and so did my brother! =)
I hope this helps your next Angry Birds bash! I'm going to add a supplementary tutorial on making an Angry Birds Pig Pinata in like 2 hours or less for under $10 (how lazy am I? Awesomely lazy!) Thanks for stopping by!
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