Puffle Party

We had the puffle party this morning and we are all puffled out.

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...