Owl Smash Cake (Updated)
I decided to redo my Owl Smash Cake tutorial with better pictures and fix the mistakes I made the first time. This Owl Smash Cake really is so easy to make that I just made it again to redo the pictures.
Ingredients:
- 2 cakes baked in 1-quart Pyrex bowls (1 Cake mix split between the two bowls, or 1 cake recipe)
- 2 Oreo cookies
- 2 orange Starbursts
- Chocolate Icing
- Coloured Icing
- 2 brown candies (Junior mints, M&Ms, Smarties etc…)
- White Chocolate Chips
Directions:
To start I baked two cakes in a 1 qt pyrex glass bowl according to my cake recipe. Make sure you grease the bowl either with butter or Pam so the cake comes out easily.
Allow the cakes to cool, then cut off the top so it is level before removing the cake from the bowl.
Spread icing on the top of the bottom cake.
Cover the bottom cake with the icing. To create “feathers” apply with a butter knife and pull at the icing a bit.
Layer the top cake on top creating a “ball”.
Next cover the rest of the body in icing.
Pipe chocolate icing onto the cake to create wings.
Separate the two Oreo cookies, leaving the cream on one side of the cookies for the eyes. Place on cake.
Cut one of the plain cookies in half and insert into cake for the ears. Next shape one of the starbursts into a triangle for the nose and press into the icing. It is easier if you microwave the candy for about 30 seconds to soften it. Dot the back of your brown candy with icing and press into the white of the Oreos. Press white chocolate chips into the wings to create a dot pattern.
Cover the Oreo “ears” with the coloured icing. I used pink sparkle gel icing from Wilton to place a heart above the one eye. Shape two more orange starbursts into the shape of feet and use a knife to cut the “toes”.
Now go celebrate a special little ones first birthday!
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First time i seen an owl cake and i love it,awesome job !
I like the idea of using pyrex bowls to get the rounded shape without a cake mould. I wouldn’t have thought of that!
OMG! This cake is so darn cute! and easy. I want to make it:)
That is crazy adorable!! So glad I just spied this on SU. I would love to try it for my kid’s school. The mascot is an owl. Love it.
Omgosh, this is the most adorable cake I’ve ever seen and relatively simple to do! I may be able to do this! Thanks for the step by step photos!
Very cute!! I would have never thought to bake a cake in a bowl to get the round shape, but that’s a great idea! My daughter would love this, and I will definitely be making her her own special cake this year. 🙂
My youngest granddaughter we be 1 in January, what a cute idea for her mom to make
How wonderful is that! I”ll have to make this for Saedy’s birthday because Owl’s are her theme! Thanks chickie!
This is too cute!!! Thanks for sharing on the Monday Funday Party!
I love the owl smash cake! It’s so cute and seems easy enough to recreate! Visiting from Whimsy Wednesdays… Thanks for linking up!
This cake is so CUTE! My son loves owls. I want to surprise him with a cake like this.
This is so cute! My little guy’s first birthday is coming up in August and I have had no idea what kind of cake to make for him. This one is going on my list!
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adorable, and you make it look so easy.
I should try and make this for my granddaughters birthday, it’s such a cute cake!
Too cute!! I can’t wait to make this!!
So cute, I am going to have to make this. Looks easy enough for me to do!
SO very fun! Great job with the tutorial!
I love this cute idea for a cake, I will nominate you for a feature at the wake up Wednesday linky for next week, thank you for partying with us.
Ramon
Rowhouseblog.com
You’ve made this look fairly easy….I’m tempted to try! We have a birthday coming in a few weeks for my baby girl!!
So cute! really loved the idea
This is the most adorable cake. I can’t wait to try your recipe. Thanks for sharing with us at Wake Up Wednesday Linky Party. We are featuring your awesome creation at this weeks party.
Angel
This is really cute and looks so fun and easy to make! Not to mention it also looks so yummy!!!
Stopping by from the “Wonderful Wednesday” link up 🙂
OMGosh it turned out so cute! I’m saving for my next cake I do 🙂
that is so cute!!!! i will try to make, hopefully will be as pretty!
I love this Owl Smash Cake. It is so easy to make, frost and decorate. I know little children will love it. Thank you for the directions.
I will be trying these for Christmas for the kids
I love this idea!!! So cute… Thank you!
Smash cakes are so much fun to create! This is such a cute little cake. I love the texture you were able to get out of the frosting for the feathers too. Thanks for sharing!
This is the cutest! I love the little bow.
Thank you for sharing your creativity with See Ya in the Gumbo this week.
Your project ROCKS! 🙂
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Such a cute cake!
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I’m pinning this! So cute. My daughter loves Owls.
Ever Nice.
Making this cake for my 1yr old today! I wish you would have added white chocolate chips to your ingredient list. I noticed them in the picture on the wings but now I don’t have time to go get any! It will still be cute though.
Just made this for my girls’ party. It turned out so cute! I used another fruity chew candy molded into a bow, and I used vanilla wafers since I didn’t have sandwich cookies. I did the main bird light brown and pink wings to cut down on the coloring (mostly, I didn’t feel like doing it ;).