Confucius Cake

Gabe with his Confucius cake.

Gabe cutting out his cake desin

This week Gabe decided to make a Confucius cake for a class project.  His 6th grade history class is studying ancient China.  About a week ago he opened his text book to the picture of Confucius and said "I want to make a cake that looks like that."  Why not?

First he made made a wax paper cut of the cake pans so he could make a template for the cake shapes.  He used our "go to" cake recipe for yellow butter cake from Birthday Cakes for Kids.  My job was to assist him, but he really made the whole cake himself.  He wrapped the cake in plastic wrap and popped it in the freezer overnight to make the design phase easier.

The next day he took his cakes out of the freezer and just admired them for a few minutes.  I though to myself, "He's starting to sound like me when I make something, scary!"  He cut out the main shapes using his wax paper pattern.  Then he made a huge batch of butter cream frosting using the recipe from the same book.  The colors he chose were dark gray for the beard, white for the face, and orange for the hat.  He made the eyes blue to match the decorations on the hat, even though we all know he had brown eyes.

He did all the decorating.

Gabe really enjoyed making his school project.