Angry Bird Cake!

Usually I just buy a toy and stick it on top of the cake for my kids birthdays. Ta da! A birthday cake with their favorite character.  This year my son wanted an Angry Bird cake.  I just could not shell out the bucks for a small cheap toy to stick on top of the cake.  I decided to try and make the cake myself.  If your a non decorator this is any easy cake to make.  

You'll need:
1 cake mix (make sure you have eggs and oil since most cake mixes call for these)

1 chocolate frosting can

1 vanilla frosting can

2 round pans

1 red cake mate decorating frosting and star tip

2 Oreo cookies

Instructions:

Make the cake as directed and pour into two greased and floured round pans.  Bake for 30 minutes until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.

Let the cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes so the cakes won't stick when you turn them over.

Turn cakes over onto a wire rack to cool. 

When the cake is cool place the one cake top side down on your cake plate. Use the chocolate frosting to frost the top of the cake. 

Place your other layer bottom side down on top of the first cake.  (If both flat ends face each other your cake won't slide and will be less lopsided.  

Use the chocolate frosting to frost the sides of the cake.

Take two Oreo's and separate the two pieces so the cream is on one side.  Use frosting an place on the cake.

Use the vanilla frosting and star tip to make a half circle shape at the bottom of the cake.  Fill the circle in using the star tip.  

With food coloring dye the rest of the vanilla frosting orange.  To make the beak use a star tip and make a triangle between the eyes and another triangle upside down from the first.  Fill in the triangles.

Use the red frosting cake mate with a star tip and decorate the top half of the cake with stars.  

With the chocolate frosting use a straight tip and outline the beak and the top feathers of the bird.  Also, dot the middle of the eyes and outline two eyebrows that cover the top part of the Oreo's.  Use a little water on a knife to smooth out the eyebrows.

Use the remaining orange frosting and add stars around the bottom of the cake.  

Have fun adding any detail to your cake!

Upscale Old Pants Into a Cute Spring Skirt!

 

It is that time of year again to change over to summer clothes.  My daughter had some cute sweats that fit great this winter, but like most of her pants they ended up with holes in the knees.  I decided to upscale one of her favorite pair of pants into a cute spring skirt. 

First, cut off the pants you are going to upscale right above the inner leg seam.  Next I bought a ½ yard of the kitty fabric (one of her favorite animals) and a ½ yard of the stripe fabric to match. Cut the kitty fabric on the fold line to get the front and back pieces. Next, folded the stripe fabric length wise and cut on the new fold line to get the front and back border.  

With right sides together sew the one border fabric to the front skirt piece and one to the back skirt piece. (The border fabric may be longer than the skirt front or back pieces.  Cut off the extra fabric to make it even)

With right sides together match the side seams of the front and back of the skirt and sew together. 

 Sew a baste stitch on the top of the skirt.  Gather.  With right sides together and once again matching side seams sew the skirt to the cut of pant top.  Lastly, hem the bottom of the skirt.  Now  a special little girl has her own twirlly skirt!