How can I make a pink flamingo cake?

I want to make it into the shape of a pink flamingo, not just decorate the top of a round or sheet cake.

How can I make a pink flamingo cake?
Hi. You should use a similar technique as you would use to make an armadillo cake like in Steel Magnolias. Make the head and neck out of fondant, which they sell at craft stores. Let it harden overnight. It comes in colors and everything. Technically it's edible. Use a football shaped cake pan for the body, that's what they use for the armadillo too. Use a pound cake recipe, and make one rectangle cake and one football cake, put the football one on top and trim off the edges of the lower one. Use food color for the frosting, or coat it in pink fondant. I would stick a couple pink feathers in the end too. If you want feet, don't trim the bottom cake, frost it blue, and draw the legs on with yellow, as if it was standing in water. Good luck!





ps, they sell the football cake pan at party supply stores or Michaels, Hobby Lobby, etc.
Reply:I dont have a clue how to make one but thats the cutest idea I've ever heard of!! How fun!! Im watching your answers.
Reply:make a sheet cake and cut the pieces out of it (body, neck and head maybe). I would use something besides cake to make the legs maybe i think skinny little legs would be too hard to attempt with cake. maybe some twizzlers or some type of candy? It might even be cute to use strawberry cake mix so its really a pink flamingo on the inside too! I would use a star icing tip to decorate the outside (cover it in the 'stars') circle icing tips for the eyes. Good luck! I'm sure it will be cute no matter what you do!!





ps: just saw the fondant idea below...it might look even cuter and polished in fondant i just dont normaly use it because im not crazy about the taste. It would also be a good idea to use for the legs!
Reply:Well.. first you take some cake mix..


and then you take a flamingo...


LOL sry that was just too good to pass up.





Seriously though, if you want to make any kind of shaped cake that isnt in a cake pan, you have to do it in pieces. It wouild be really easy to make the body of the flamingo, the only problem would be the beak. try messing around with cupcake tins.