This cake was made for April’s work birthday party @ my husband’s job. I had seen the idea in a Food Network magazine and thought it looked fun. The peep itself is constructed out of a 9×13 plus two cakes baked in bowls. I needed a few more servings, so I put the whole thing on another 9×13 cake.
I didn’t have the best time with the tail portion. Once it was frosted, it really pulled on the wooden skewer supports that the instructions said to use. It ended up cracking a little, but not horribly. In looking at real peeps, I noticed that they don’t really have a pronounced tail like the FN cake. I think if I did this one again, I would just sculpt a small peak of a tail with frosting at the back. The beak (also a triangle of cake skewered onto the head cake) stayed on well, though, as you can imagine, its kind of a challenge to ice that nicely.
But it turned out cute in the end. The peep is covered in yellow colored sugar. The eyes are chocolate melting wafers.
