Regular readers know one of our favorite non profits is Birthday Dreams, an organization that provides birthday parties complete with decorations, gifts and custom cakes for kiddos celebrating their birthday in a homeless shelter.
We recently saw a post for an 18-year-old asking for a sloth-themed cake. Given that CJ and Annabelle are teens of or about that age, we are partial to fulfilling teenagers' requests, and we also tend to pick cakes we're afraid no one else will take on. So, we signed up for the sloth cake.
We'd actually done a sloth cake once before, complete free-form on our parts. This time, I did the Google and found a great tutorial for a super cute sloth cake.
We decided to give it a go!
It was actually a very straightforward process. Bake and stack the cake layers, add a little Rice Krispies treat (arms and legs in this case), craft claws from modeling chocolate, and make the facial features from fondant.
The trickiest part was covering the sloth in 'fur.' We used buttercream and a 'grass' icing tip but ... the icing bag kept exploding as we squeezed it hard to express the frosting fur. So frustrating!
We eventually got it done, however. The sign the sloth is holding was a graham cracker covered in fondant with letters cut from a sugar sheet. We were super happy with how the whole thing turned out.
More recently, we saw an ask from a soon to be 9-year-old boy. He wanted a Mandalorian cake. That's the first time we'd seen that on the Birthday Dreams' board and felt compelled to take that on, being the big Star Wars fans that we are.
We did the Google and saw cool Mandalorian-themed cakes featured on Sunday Sweets on the Cake Wrecks site (one of our favorite pages ever, by the way).
It was pretty straightforward.
