After listening to the excellent unabridged version of the Hobbit, and watching the movie, Rascal requested a “Hobbit” themed birthday for his 11th birthday this year! Our cake turned out differently, but was mostly inspired by Charlotte’s recent Hobbit Hole cake and Rascal’s Hobbit Hole Lego Set. Usually I wait until the kids are in bed to decorate their cakes, but today I decided to take advantage of the long nap Bud took this afternoon. So now I get to share it with you tonight!
My Supplies:
2 boxes cake mix (Rascal choose Triple Chocolate)
Oval Cake Pan (I have the Oval Pan set which I love! I first used them for our Nesting Doll Cake and also use them each Easter for Egg shaped cakes! For this cake I used the 13.5″x9.8″ Oval)
Filling/Frosting of choice
2 containers white frosting
leaf green icing color
Wilton Tip #233 (for grass) with decorating bag and coupler
Nutella mixed with a little of the extra white icing (for the ground – chocolate frosting or brown sugar would also work)
1 granola bar (for chimney)
2 large chocolate coins (for windows)
yellow sprinkles (or yellow frosting)
1 green sugar sheet (for door)
1 yellow Sixlets (for door knob)
Candy Rocks (decorations)
Candy Flowers (I used these.)
2 Hershey Chocolate Bars (for around door and walkway)
Assembling the Cake:
Bake two oval cakes. Cool. Slice each cake in half lengthwise.
Line up the cakes on platter, filling with frosting/filling of preference. (We ended up only using 3 of the 4 cakes halves, and 2 – one cake – might have been enough, but we liked the look of the three cakes halves best.) I then covered the cake with a layer of white frosting. (I usually then stick it in the freezer to harden, but didn’t this time and regretted it later!)
Make the chimney. Slice a granola bar in half and stick the two halves together (we used a little Nutella). Place on top of cake.
Cover the cake with green grass using tinted frosting and the grass frosting tip. This took a little while, and I bounced back and forth between it and other things, but it was fun!
At Charlotte’s suggestion I made the door with a Green Sugar Sheet! The cookie cutter helped with the size I needed and then I cut the circle out with a pair of scissors. For the yellow door knob, I just attached a yellow Sixlets with some chocolate.
Cool!
I've been eyeing the sugar sheets, glad to see someone use them with success! Awesome cake.
Beautiful! My two older kids are reading over my shoulder 🙂 & are very excited for Rascal & his "very awesome cake" today ~ Happy Birthday, Rascal!!
Your grass-frosting turned out very realistic ~ does your frosting tip come from Pampered Chef kit?
Wishing you all a joy-filled day of Birthday celebrating!
I just might have to make that creation for an upcoming birthday! Thanks for the inspiration.
What a wonderful cake! Happy Birthday to Rascal!
Awesome!! Happy Birthday Rascal! Your boys are growing up so fast!!
Neat cake!! I just finished reading The Hobbit to my children, I will have to show them this! They will love it! Happy Birthday to Rascal! 🙂
Actually I don't think the frosting tip comes with that set… I picked up one at JoAnn's the other night and it's a Wilton #233.
Thank you for the birthday wishes! 🙂
This was such a fun idea! I made it for my brother's birthday, and he absolutely loved it. Thank you!
thanks for the cake "how to" …. I'm going to try to make it today.
It worked ….thank you so much. I wouldn't have even known where to start without your page.
Yay! I'm so glad this post was helpful! Thanks for commenting! 🙂
awesome! making it 4 my sons 10th tomorrow! i hope 4 the best!!!!!!