What kid wouldn’t want an Angry Birds birthday cake for their special day? And don’t worry if you don’t know how to make fancy birthday cakes, that’s okay. Even a novice like myself was able to do it. So, let’s get started.

So, my son’s birthday was actually back in March, but I’m just getting around to creating this post. When, he said that he wanted a cake from Angry Birds, I found tons of different types online. However, this one was the easiest. Although it wasn’t perfect, my son loved it and that’s all that mattered. I found a simple video tutorial that might help you as well.

Gather your Angry Birds birthday cake supplies

This cake doesn’t require that many ingredients. It’s super easy. Here’s the supplies that you’ll need:

• 8×4 Cake hemisphere pan
• Stainless steel heating rod 4.25 inch
• Two boxed cake mixes (any flavor)
• Two containers of white frosting
• Black fondant
• Red fondant
• White fondant
• Orange fondant
• Green food coloring

Instead of buying separate packages of different colored fondant, you can buy white fondant and add food coloring. I just bought separate boxes for the sake of time and simplicity. Also, if you like to make your cake from scratch, here’s a great vanilla cake recipe that you will love.

Bake your cake

You can’t really make this cake without some type of spherical mold. Some people like to just cook their cake in an oven-safe bowl, but I wanted to make sure my cake was a true sphere, so I bought a 8×4 Cake hemisphere pan. I figure I can use this pan for tons of other cake recipes down the road.

Cook both cake mixes according to the instructions on the box. One can mix will fill the cake hemisphere pan. Then you can cook the second one in the same pan after the first one has cooled. Don’t forget to insert the heating rod to ensure that the cake is cooked through completely.

Assemble your cake

Once both half spheres are cooked and completely cooled, cut off the bottom of one of the cakes. This way the cake won’t roll away! Spread white frosting in between each sphere and then place them together. Then spread white frosting all around the entire spherical cake.

Decorate your cake

First, roll out the red fondant. Make sure you roll out enough. You’ll want it to drape over the entire sphere so you can’t see any of the cake. Here’s a great tutorial on how to cover a spherical cake with fondant so it looks professional.

Find an image of this particular Angry Bird online so you can use it as a template as you decorate this cake. Place the white belly first, then add the nose, eyes, feathers on top and then finally the tail. Don’t be too hard on yourself if it’s not perfect. Be careful when you switch from color to color. I wasn’t very careful and got a little bit of red smudged onto the white. You also might want to use some toothpicks to hold up the tail and the feathers on the top.

And there you have it! You’re first Angry Birds birthday cake. I hope that whoever you are making this cake for is going to love it. If you have any other fun DIY birthday cake ideas, please leave them in the comments below.

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Birthday cakes. Ugh. Sometimes achieving Pinterest perfection isn’t on my “to do” list. But, making birthday cakes is still a rite of passage for every mother. So, when you’re not really up to pulling out the Martha Stewart inside of you, try settling with these average, not-so-pin-worthy birthday cake Pinterest fails:

Dead deer birthday cake

Yes, you read that correctly. My husband’s birthday happened to fall on the opening day of the hunt. The cake didn’t quite turn out like the photo on Pinterest, but it did get quite a few laughs. One of my many birthday cake fails.

Pirate cake

This one didn’t turn out so bad. But what the heck? I just can’t quite make it look like the picture. Something went horribly wrong with the skull and bones on my sails. Oh well.

Construction cake

The Pinterest cake is obviously a step above. But I didn’t want to drag three kids to Dollar Tree to buy some toy bull dozers and trucks. So, I may or may not have found a tractor in the sandbox in our backyard and washed it off. It was mostly clean.

Bob the Builder cake

I was in a pinch and I already had Bob the Builder cake decorations. So, my 36-year-old husband got a birthday cake fit for a two-year-old. I can confidently say this was a Pinterest fail. Oh well.

Holy cake Batman!

It looked so simple from the photo. Although my batman birthday cake wasn’t perfect. I felt like I did a pretty good job. My little boy loved it too.

Scary Jack O’ Lantern Cake

The frosting on this one was runnier than I thought and I didn’t have a pumpkin cake mold. So, this was the best I could do.

Spotted cake

Technically I didn’t make this cake for a birthday, but I thought it was a good example of being lazy. My cake is cute enough, right?

What other Pinterest birthday cake fails have you had? Leave your comments below.

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