Homestar Runner Birthday Cake

My little brother loves the Homestarrunner.com site. The rest of the family finds it a little obnoxious but he loves it. So for his birthday, instead of buying something for him this year I decided to bake him a cake and cover it in Homestar characters.

The Homestar Cake

The Homestarrunner Logo

Homestar

Strongbad

TROGDOR the BURNINATOR!!!!

The Cheat and Strongbad

The Cheat

Coach Z


Pom Pom



Homsar (he was made before I perfected my technique)


The characters were all done with buttercream transfers, an amazing method for cake decorating. Here is the basic idea:

• If you're copying/tracing an existing image (as I did) print off the image flipped horizontally (mirror image) from how you would see it regularly.
• Tape the image to a portable, flat surface. I used a granite slab that we use on our kitchen table to keep hot things off the wood. A pane of glass will also work or a sturdy cutting board.
• Cover the image and work area in waxed paper.
• Make some buttercream icing with your favourite recipe, separate and dye into the colour scheme you need for the image(s)
• Using the smallest decorating tip you have start with the bottom layer of icing with all of the small details. The first layer you decorate will be the front layer when the image is on the cake. (I will use Stongbad as an example, for him I did the eyes and the 'V', mouth and the blue bit. Then I did the black mask.)
• Continue with all of the layers until the image is done. (For Strongbad, the next layer I did was the body and pants, followed by the gloves, boots and face.)
• Freeze the entire workspace surface, workslab and all, for about 30-45 minutes.
• Cut out each image with an excess of wax paper around the edges and stick onto the cake.
• Freeze the whole cake (with images and wax paper attached) for another 20 min or so
• Take the cake out of the freezer and begin peeling the wax paper away from your images
• If the images are sticking to the wax paper this is because the icing is softening, so just stick it back in the freezer for a while.
• When all the wax paper is off, stand back and enjoy the amazing decorations you have created.