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Small Olaf Cake

A while back I made a large Olaf Cake for a charity I help Birthday Dreams. A friend of mine asked if I could make a smaller version for her daughter that was having a couple friends over.  I made one batch of a homemade cake and scaled it down to this size. 

Ingredients

• Creme-filled cookies (I used Black Modeling Chocolate)
• Miniature creme-filled cookies
• Chocolate licorice
• Orange frosting (I used Orange Modeling Chocolate)
• Black frosting
• Buttercream frosting
• 1 box of cake mix (I made mine from scratch)

Instructions

1. Bake your cake mix, according to instructions. Use your mix to make two 8-inch round cakes. Since mine was small I used a square 9x12 pan and a small round pan for the feet and neck.
2. Allow cakes to cool.
3. Freeze cakes, preferably overnight.
4. Make your Olaf template. Since this cake was small I did this by hand and using bowls to trace the body.
5. Once satisfied with your Olaf cake template, take your cake out of the freezer and place template on top. Using a sharp knife and small cuts, carefully cut around your template to shape the cake. Remember to go slowly… it’s tougher to add cake back on than it is to cut a bit more off.
6. Put cakes back in the freezer.
7. Mix your buttercream frosting (I use My Sturdy Buttercream Frosting).
8. First, spread your cakes with the buttercream frosting.
9. Refreeze frosted cakes while you prepare the rest of your ingredients.
10. Here’s what I used:

• For eyes: Half of a creme-filled cookie for each eye. Use a mini creme-filled cookie for the inside of the eye. / This time I used black and white modeling chocolate.
• For nose: Dollop of orange frosting. / This time I used orange modeling chocolate.
• For mouth: Black frosting mixed with our white buttercream frosting to make a charcoal grey. Tip: We made a separate template for his mouth. We cut the inside of the mouth out, set it on top of the cake and spread our frosting in the middle, using that template like a stencil. When we pulled our stencil, this gave us a sharper edge all around. / This time I used black modeling chocolate.
• For tooth: I didn’t want to spend money on fondant for such a small piece. This was a little tough, but I gently scraped the inside of a creme-filled cookie and called it a tooth. / This time I used white modeling chocolate.
• For buttons: Creme-filled cookie. Use just half the cookie – or the full. / This time I used black modeling chocolate.
• For eyebrows: Chocolate licorice / This time I used black modeling chocolate.
• For hair: Chocolate licorice
• For arms: Chocolate licorice

ALEXIS NOTES: I made my notes above, since this is a smaller cake I had to use smaller items then the oreo's etc. I just used modeling chocolate I had on hand and made to scale.

When you leave left over cake out from making the body you find this.

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Frozen Party ... Build Olaf the Snowman

Next on my list to do the frozen gift I was making was a fun and easy item. I found several ideas on pinterest for this but then I came across Build a Snowman on Pretty Providence they have great free printable you can use.  Make sure you say thank you, it's so awesome when people make these and share for free.

What you need:

Clear Small Treat Bag (Dollar Tree 50pk $1)

Large Marshmallow's

Stick Pretzels

Mini Chocolate Chips

Stapler

Card Stock Paper / Printer

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Frozen Themed Party ... DYI Olaf Bag

I don't often get to make girl themed gifts, but I went to a friends little granddaughter's party who loved Frozen the movie. I went on the search for fun DYI gift ideas. I found several idea's on Pinterest and ran with.

What You Need:

White Bag (Dollar Tree $1)

Orange Card Stock

Black Sharpie (Dollar Tree $1)

Large Google Eyes (Dollar Tree - Bag $1)

Craft Glue

I had the glue and card stock at home so I ran to the Dollar Tree to grab the other items. I free styled the bag you could find a template but I figured I could do this by hand. 

I outline the eyebrows, one got a little crazy ... lol.  Glue on your eyes.  Take your orange card stock and cut out the nose.  You can find a template and print on your card stock and then cut it out or just freestyle it. Attach the nose with the glue. For the mouth I drew a mouth with a spot for his one front tooth.  I then colored in the mouth around the tooth. I found some sparkle snowflake tissue paper to keep with the theme.

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Cakes for Charity ... Olaf Cake

Some of you follow me on FB and know I love a Charity called Birthday Dreams, they bring birthdays to homeless kids.  I've been so excited to be able to bring a kid a birthday cake. And you know me and my themes, so this is right up my alley.

This was actually the 3rd cake I made for them, but he was so cute I had to share him first.  I found this idea for a Olaf Cake on Fun Finds for Family.  It was so simple for the template I printed out the Olaf template on The Sensible Mom.  Blow up the image to fit the size of cake you would like.

The little girl who requested Frozen as her themed asked for confetti cake.  NOW most of you know me and I HATE box mixes and avoid if I can.  I found Easy Homemade Funfetti Cake on Sallys Baking Addiction.

First Make your Cake I made 2 LARGE round cakes.

Ingredients:

CAKE

• 1 and 2/3 cup (210g) all-purpose flour, careful not to overmeasure
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick or 115 g) unsalted butter, melted
• 3/4 cup (150g) granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup (50g) light brown sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup (60g) yogurt  (plain or vanilla; or greek yogurt; or sour cream)
• 3/4 cup (180ml) milk (cow's milk; or soy milk; or almond milk)
• 1 Tablespoon (15ml) vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup sprinkles (not nonpareils)

Then to make your olaf cake:

Ingredients

• Creme-filled cookies
• Miniature creme-filled cookies
• Chocolate licorice
• Orange frosting
• Black frosting
• Buttercream frosting (preferably, the easiest homemade buttercream frosting ever)
• 1 box of cake mix

Instructions

*Note: Leave yourself enough time. When making a homemade cake like this, I start at least 24 hours before I need to present it. This allows time to freeze the cakes before decorating, which is one key ingredient to pulling these together.

1. Bake your cake mix, according to instructions. Use your mix to make two 8-inch round cakes.
2. Allow cakes to cool.
3. Freeze cakes, preferably overnight.
4. Make your Olaf template. I used a Frozen worksheet (see below) that we found at our local library. I traced the Olaf head onto a blank piece of paper. Then (just eyeballing it), I made that traced head slightly larger – large enough to cover one 8-inch round cake.
5. Once satisfied with your Olaf cake template, take your cake out of the freezer and place template on top. Using a sharp knife and small cuts, carefully cut around your template to shape the cake. Remember to go slowly… it’s tougher to add cake back on than it is to cut a bit more off.
6. Put cakes back in the freezer.
7. Mix your buttercream frosting.
8. First, spread your cakes with the buttercream frosting.
9. Refreeze frosted cakes while you prepare the rest of your ingredients.
10. Here’s what I used:

• For eyes: Half of a creme-filled cookie for each eye. Use a mini creme-filled cookie for the inside of the eye.
• For nose: Dollop of orange frosting
• For mouth: Black frosting mixed with our white buttercream frosting to make a charcoal grey. Tip: We made a separate template for his mouth. We cut the inside of the mouth out, set it on top of the cake and spread our frosting in the middle, using that template like a stencil. When we pulled our stencil, this gave us a sharper edge all around.
• For tooth: I didn’t want to spend money on fondant for such a small piece. This was a little tough, but I gently scraped the inside of a creme-filled cookie and called it a tooth.
• For buttons: Creme-filled cookie. Use just half the cookie – or the full.
• For eyebrows: Chocolate licorice
• For hair: Chocolate licorice
• For arms: Chocolate licorice

ALEXIS NOTES: For the nose I took a ice cream cone broke it down to the size I wanted and frosted orange.  For the mouth, eyebrows and inside eye I used black fondant (cut it in the shapes I wanted).  For Tooth I built up my frosting to look like a tooth.  Buttons I used York Mint Patties.  I used my favorite Sturdy Buttercream Frosting that holds up and taste so YUMMY.

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