Curious George Cake

I did this cake for Super Girl's Birthday, then Tasha did it (with a teeny bit of help from Moi) for Aubrie's Birthday. To be fair, Tasha's looked cuter. So I'll tell you how we did ours differently too!

You'll Need:
1 cake mix of your choice
2 round cake pans
muffin tin or 2 muffin liners (the aluminum kind)
1 can chocolate frosting
1 can caramel frosting
2 cookies for eyes (I used oreos, tasha used Thin mints with white frosting blobs and M&M's for the pupils)
Frosting for drawing the face (white, red, pink and black)

Bake the cake mix according to the directions except make 2 cupkakes and the 2 round cakes.
After the cake has cooled, stack the round cakes on top of one another (you may have to cut the top off the one on the bottom in order for them to stand securely, you can also put a layer of caramel frosting in between the cakes, you'll have enough for decorating still)
Frost the entire cake and the top of the 2 cupcakes with the chocolate frosting. Place the 2 cupcakes on the sides of the round cake for George's ears

Then make an 8 with the caramel frosting on the round cakes. It should cover most of the face. Also, make a small semi-circle on each cupcake with the caramel frosting.

If using oreos for eyes, either scrape out some of the middles, or put a circle of black frosting for pupils. If using thin mints or the whole oreo, place a large circle of white frosting on the cookie, and use a brown m&M for pupils! Make eyebrows, nose, ear creases, and outline mouth and face with black frosting. (Tasha used 2 brown m&m's for a nose and red m&m's for the smile.) Fill in the mouth with red frosting and use the pink frosting to make a tongue (optional).


I didn't like the look from just scraping out the middles for the pupil, so I added black frosting.


Then the frosting from George's mouth started to fall out of the outline, so I had to double it up.
I got the idea from this link...thanks PBS!

http://www.pbs.org/parents/parties/curiousgeorge/food_cake.html

There's lots of other cute ideas there for a Curious George Birthday, or for other PBS characters too (Arthur, Boobah, Clifford, Cyber Chase, Dragon Tales, It's a Big Big World, and Teletubbies)
Check them out at http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/ and click on the Parties tab!