We had the puffle party this morning and we are all puffled out.
There was puffle cake, puffle pinata, pass-the-puffle, toss the puffle (Jason just made some rude allusions to a private schoolboy game as I type this! Mind in the gutter, as usual. I assure you, the game was completely innocent!), puffle tag and find the puffle treasure. Puffle, puffle, puffle!
On the previous post, so many people asked me what a puffle was. It is a character from Disney's Club Penguin which is an online game for children. When you sign on, you join an online community of penguins where you can play games and adopt pets called puffles. My older boys play it, usually on school holidays or weekends. Son #2 is mad for it but it is the puffles that have captured his imagination.
Fortunately, puffles are little spherical balls of fluff and very easy to replicate and draw.
The cake was a basic chocolate cake recipe baked in a medium pudding bowl. It took a little longer to cook because of the shape of the bowl.
The frosting was a basic butter icing for the main body, the hair was made with fluffy frosting (sugar syrup and egg whites mixed together to form thick glossy peaks). Please note, green is the favourite colour of the birthday boy. The outline of the eyes and the mouth was melted dark chocolate piped on with a not-so-steady hand. The eyes are just choc chip bits.
As far as character cakes go, it was quite simple. The mini-guests were not too critical with their assessment and ignored the basic design flaws. Phew!
And as for that poor Pinata Puffle...there was no mercy shown. It was an ugly, brutal assault...
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| Puffle cake Very dodgy cake decorating. (I should've smoothed out the icing with a hot palette knife, but I didn't.) |
There was puffle cake, puffle pinata, pass-the-puffle, toss the puffle (Jason just made some rude allusions to a private schoolboy game as I type this! Mind in the gutter, as usual. I assure you, the game was completely innocent!), puffle tag and find the puffle treasure. Puffle, puffle, puffle!
On the previous post, so many people asked me what a puffle was. It is a character from Disney's Club Penguin which is an online game for children. When you sign on, you join an online community of penguins where you can play games and adopt pets called puffles. My older boys play it, usually on school holidays or weekends. Son #2 is mad for it but it is the puffles that have captured his imagination.
Fortunately, puffles are little spherical balls of fluff and very easy to replicate and draw.
The cake was a basic chocolate cake recipe baked in a medium pudding bowl. It took a little longer to cook because of the shape of the bowl.
The frosting was a basic butter icing for the main body, the hair was made with fluffy frosting (sugar syrup and egg whites mixed together to form thick glossy peaks). Please note, green is the favourite colour of the birthday boy. The outline of the eyes and the mouth was melted dark chocolate piped on with a not-so-steady hand. The eyes are just choc chip bits.
As far as character cakes go, it was quite simple. The mini-guests were not too critical with their assessment and ignored the basic design flaws. Phew!
And as for that poor Pinata Puffle...there was no mercy shown. It was an ugly, brutal assault...
Your cake looks fabulous! Thanks for explaining how it was made ... you should be very proud of your efforts! You're quite clever in doing the hair.
ReplyDeletePuffle pummeled to a pulp then?
Your puffle looks rather cute! Love the hair! Yum ! x
ReplyDeleteThat's one cute puffle,looks alot like a chuzzle.I love using that fluffy frosting,it's like eating soft-serve marshmallow.Happy Birthday little 7!Bet Mum and Dad will sleep well tonight.
ReplyDeleteThanks MMMC! Poor puffle. He was defiant to the end, poking his tongue out with every whack!
ReplyDeleteHey Pam and Simmone! Thanks! We will sleep well. Xx
ReplyDeletewhat a fab design - I know what puffles - and yours is a fine example :) le xox
ReplyDeleteThe Puffle reminds me of the ghost cake in the Women's Weekly birthday cake book. mmmm fluffy sticky icing.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great day for all.
What a fabulous cake! Fifi
ReplyDeleteI think the cake looks fantastic. I love the pooch hair and wacky colours. Fantastic :)
ReplyDeleteI so love an originally crafted cake- suberb effort and thanks for letting us all know what the heck this thing was. I'm up shortly for replicating Angelina Ballerina! melx
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job with the cake and pinata. Never heard of a puffle before.
ReplyDeleteI too was ignorant re all things Puffle before seeing this, he's a little bit SouthPark..? Excellent job on the cake and DIY piñata and yes totally agree with the above, that gravity defying hair/frosting is amazing!!
ReplyDeleteHooray! Well done now you need a rest I'm sure :) The puffle party sounds like a lot of fun and your cake is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGreat job. Love the puffle hair!
ReplyDeleteSo cool!
ReplyDeleteI love puffle's hair!
ReplyDeleteKylie
That looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteunfamiliar to me too, but hes cute
ReplyDelete~laura x
That cake is amazing, Love it! Mimi xx
ReplyDeleteThat puffle cake (in particular the hair) looks so light and fluffle. I won't show Zig as he will demand I make one and mine wouldn't look like yours.
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