Anyone looking for a Timmy Time birthday cake idea? Here is one such cake I made for my youngest boy’s 1st birthday. And why did I choose Timmy Time? Because it was his favourite show then! I still remember how he would shake his body while holding on to our coffee table, dancing to the song from the Timmy Time show every afternoon. And this was at an age when he was not even able to walk properly yet!
If you have watched Timmy Time before, you will notice that there will be hardly any words spoken in the show, its all merely the different sounds made by the characters as they carry on the show. Its quite amazing how plain action-based shows like this can attract toddlers’ attention so well.
The main character in the show is Timmy the lamb and each episode will depict his various adventures in school, along with his friends, Yabba the duckling, Mittens the kitten, Otus the owlet and a handful of other animal characters.
So back to the cake. Since my boy at the age of one, enjoyed the music and the show so much, I decided to make him a Timmy Time themed cake for this 1st birthday. It was a double barrel cake measuring 7 inches in diameter. The cake was decorated in both buttercream and fondant and I made 4 fondant toppers based on the characters from the show with Timmy being the main topper. Let see how I made and decorated the cake below:
These were the main supplies I used for the cake:
This was how I put the cake together:
I also made the 3D letters and the balloon Timmy was holding
in advance. These were made using fondant that has been added CMC.
As for the cake itself, once baked, I leveled all layers, sandwiched them with buttercream and stacked them all up. And then I applied a thin layer of buttercream crumb coat.
To decorate the cake, I started with the background colours of bright green and blue. I divided my buttercream into 2 bowls and tinted one with Americolor electric green and the other in royal blue food colors. And then I filled the icing into 2 different piping bags. I cut small holes in the piping bags and piped the buttercream all around the cake. I started with the green and halfway up the cake, I switched to blue. I continued with the blue icing right to the top of the cake and including the top. And then, using an icing scraper, I smoothed the sides of the cake as well as the top.
Next, I cut out lots of fondant circles using my round plunger cutter in blue, green and white fondant. And then, I attached them to the cake, starting from the bottom all the way to the top. Since I was putting them on buttercream, I did not need to use any ‘glue’. The buttercream was able to hold them in place well.
I also used the circle cut outs for the cake top, in addition to a large light green fondant cut out in the centre of the cake and a couple of layers of fondant strips from my extruder tool.
Next was the “Happy Birthday” plaque and the letters themselves. The plaque was cut out of fondant while the letters were cut in white gum paste. I painted the gum paste letters with edible gold paint and let the paint dry completely before attaching the letters onto the plaque with shortening. And then I attached the plaque onto the side of the cake (used shortening as the glue) before adding a white frame to it. The frame was piped out using my fondant extruder tool.
After the plaque, I cut out more white fondant circles and attached them in one row, all around the middle of the cake. And then I added gold painted heart cut outs on them, leaving a gap of one fondant circle cut out in between each heart. I also added gold painted stars on the cake at distant intervals before adding a light green rope border around the cake. The border was piped out of my extruder tool too.
Next to go onto the cake was my son’s name. I ‘glued’ the letters onto the cake border, to make sure they are remained in place intact. And, in placing the name on, I made sure its balanced and centred and in line with the fondant plaque I attached to the cake earlier.
And finally, I added the fondant animals on. Except for Timmy, all the other 3 were just placed on the side of the cake, on the cake board. I did not glue them down as they were quite stable that way already. As for Timmy, the wooden skewer I had on one of his legs helped to hold him in place on the cake.
And that’s that. Timmy Time birthday cake for my son's 1st birthday.
Hope you like this Timmy Time birthday cake idea. If you have any questions, pls leave them in the section below. I will revert to you as soon as I can.
Happy Decorating :)
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