Before school ended this last year the school had a cake walk and asked for cakes to be donated. I of course couldn't just pick up a cake, I wanted to make something. It was a jungle theme so I found this super cute Monkey Cake on Parenting. I of course made it my own and I think it turned out super cute!
Ingredients:
- 1 (9-inch) round cake
- 2 chocolate-covered doughnuts
- ½ can (1 cup) vanilla frosting
- Red food coloring (I used Pink for lips)
- 1 can (16 oz) chocolate frosting (I used fondant instead)
- ½ cup chocolate sprinkles (I skipped)
- 2 brown M&M's or black jelly beans (I used fondant)
- 2 miniature York peppermint patties
- 1 chocolate Twizzler
What you'll need:
- A bread knife
- A serving platter
- 2 resealable sandwich-size plastic bags (Ziploc)
- Kitchen shears or scissors
Trimming the cakes:
- Place the cake on a clean work surface. Using the bread knife, trim a 1 ½-inch triangle-shaped notch from opposite sides of the cake (see template). Discard scraps. Place the trimmed cake onto a serving platter.
- Cut ½ inch from one side of each doughnut.
For the white, red and pink frosting:
- Spoon ¼ cup of the untinted vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag.
- Add enough red food coloring to 2 Tbsp of the vanilla frosting to tint it red and spoon it into a separate resealable plastic bag.
- Add a few drops of the red food coloring to the remaining vanilla frosting to tint it a pale pink.
Frosting the cake:
- Spread the chocolate frosting onto the top and sides of the cake, avoiding the lower half of the monkey's face.
- Spread the pale-pink frosting into a kidney bean-shaped area over the monkey's mouth, chin and cheeks, as pictured.
- Press the chocolate sprinkles into the forehead, the top of the head and the underside of the monkey's chin.
Assembling the cake:
- Press the trimmed edges of the doughnuts onto the cake for the monkey's ears. Press the M&M's or the jelly beans into the center of the cake to make the monkey's nostrils.
- Snip a very small corner from each bag of frosting. Pipe a red frosting line onto the pink part of the cake for the monkey's smile.
- Pipe 2 white circles onto the top of the cake for the monkey's eyes and press the peppermint candies into them. Add a dab of white frosting for the sparkle in each eye, as pictured.
- Snip the chocolate Twizzler into thin 2-inch strands with kitchen shears or clean scissors and insert them into the top of the cake for the monkey's hair.
Alexis Notes: I used My Rolled Buttercream Frosting an tinted it 2 shades of brown and a little bit pink for the lips. I rolled out a little of the white and made the whites of the eyes and added a little crescent moons on each york patty to the whites of the eyes. I used Wilton Gel Colors to die the fondant (this was before I found my now favorite AmeriColor at Hobby Lobby). I used a little black fondant for the nostrils.
I say this Monkey is prefect for any night!
Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.
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