- Bake a SpongeBob Squarepants cake using square or rectangular pans to make two or three layers or tiers if you want the whole cake to represent the body of the character. A commercially sold character pan is also available if you want a highly-detailed cake. This option is smaller, however. If you want both the high detail and the large amount of cake, you can place the character cake on top of a double layered rectangular shaped cake to provide extra servings.
- Tint the frosting for a SpongeBob Squarepants character cake bright yellow to match the television character. The character can be frosted with a swirling effect using a bread or pastry knife to resemble the look of a sponge. The pants should be frosted smoothly with a chocolate flavored or brown frosting that is created by mixing red and green food coloring together. The baker can opt to make SpongeBob's eyes, nose and mouth with frosting or candy pieces. An open star cake decorator piping tip can add texture to SpongeBob's body. Candy coated pretzels or frosting are two choices for his spindly legs and arms.
- Edible images of SpongeBob and his friends can be purchased to apply to a frosted cake for a quick decorating job. Add touches of the fictional "Bikini Bottom" village by adding graham cracker crumb sand and simple piped ocean creatures or circular bubbles to the cake. Several decorative options such as ocean coral can be chosen for a border and piped with a star tip around the cake top and bottom to complete the scene.
- Choose toy figurines for a fast cake project. Clean SpongeBob and friends toy characters can be placed onto small mounds of frosting on a frosted cake. Colorful sprinkles or gumdrop candies may be scattered around the cake edges to create a quick border. Commercially produced letters formed from sugar are a convenient way to spell out the greeting in a matter of minutes. The self proclaimed non-cake decorator should be able to pull this SpongeBob Squarepants cake off in an afternoon.
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