I recently made this cake to celebrate my little girl’s (finally) successful adventures in potty training. We took a trip to the local Chuck E Cheese and had a party. What kind of cake would you use at a potty party? Why, a toilet shaped cake, of course!
This commode shaped novelty cake can be used for so many different reasons- from “over the hill” parties, to celebrating pregnancy (think morning sickness), and more. Fun and icky variations such as chocolate melts and yellow frosting could be added as well. The sky’s the limit! Along with your delicate sensibilities, of course…
For this cake, I chose to use a Betty Crocker pound cake mix. I wanted to be sure it would hold its shape, and the pound cake was surprisingly delicious!
I used:
Three Pound Cake Mixes
Buttercream Frosting (For Fondant Base and Blue Water)
The Betty Crocker 4-pc. Bake’N Fill Set is perfect for this cake. I used two parts of it- the circle base pan for the toilet seat, and the round, ball shaped pan for the toilet bowl. I baked each mix according to the Bake’N Fill pan instructions, and then I baked a separate square cake with an 8″ square pan to create the toilet tank. I cut the square cake into strips and stacked them into layers with buttercream gluing each layer to the next. Then I cut the circular cake into a horseshoe shaped toilet seat lid.
I covered each section in buttercream (this is a necessary step in order for the fondant to stick to your cake). I didn’t worry too much about neatness at this point since I would be covering each piece with marshmallow fondant.
Dome and Lid Covered in Buttercream
Rolled Marshmallow Fondant
I then rolled the marshmallow fondant out into the appropriate cake shapes (circle for the dome and lid, and rectangular for the toilet tank), carefully covered each part of the cake, and then trimmed the excess fondant from around the edges.
Dome (Toilet Bowl) Turned Over and Covered in Fondant
Dome Turned Upright and Ready to fill with "Water"
Preparing the Toilet Lid for Fondant Covering
I used blue buttercream to fill the toilet with “water”, carefully placed the toilet lid on top of the bowl, and then placed the “tank” behind the bowl and lid.
Bowl filled with Water and Toilet Seat in Place
The next step was to shape a toilet handle from fondant. I pushed a dowel rod through it so that I could insert it into the cake when the time came. The handle was painted with a mixture of lemon juice and edible silver pearl dust.
Shaped and Silver Dusted Fondant Handle
The final product is a fun cake that looks like a true porcelain dream!
This has to be one of the easiest and most fun shaped cakes to make. It’s great to create with children, and there’s very little chance of doing anything that can’t be fixed. It incorporates both buttercream and fondant, but there are many variations that can be introduced. Instead of buttercream cheese, grated white chocolate can be used. A fruit pie glaze would work as tomato sauce instead of buttercream cookie frosting, and a variety of candies and cookies can be used as toppings.
To keep things simple for this recipe, a refrigerated sugar cookie dough was used. You can use a cake mix instead; just keep in mind that you’re using a pizza pan with a much larger surface area and will need less cooking time for your cake. For sugar cookie dough, be sure that your dough is soft enough to easily spread across the entire pan using either your fingers or a spoon. Bake the cookie at 350 degrees for about ten minutes, and you should end up with a nice edge that is high on the outside, looking very similar to pizza crust.
Use Refrigerated Cookie Dough as Pizza Crust.
Sugar Cookie Pizza Crust
Baked and Cooled Cookie Dough Pizza Crust
Next comes the fun part. After your cookie has cooled, use a cookie buttercream frosting in red to make tomato sauce. Let it firm, and then use buttercream (in a shade of ivory) coupled with a straight decorating tip to create strands of mozzarella cheese.
Buttercream Mozzarella Pizza Cheese
Pizza Cake Tomato Sauce
Let the buttercream cheese dry and form a crust (at least an hour) so that it will better hold its shape when you add your fondant meats and veggies. Color and cut out fondant pizza toppings (this pizza cake features black olives, pepperoni, green pepper, and onions), place them on the pizza, grab a pizza box from a local pizza place to use for presentation, and you’re done.
It’s fun, it’s easy, and you don’t need a “one shaped cake pan” to create this simple Number One cake that’s perfect for baby’s first birthday, a first anniversary or to celebrate your favorite sports team’s recent victory.
This charming cake is baked in a standard square or rectangular cake pan, cut into the number one shape and then decorated. Remaining pieces of cake can be decorated for individual serving pieces and this design even includes a 4″x4″ cake — perfect to be served up as a mini-cake to the birthday boy or girl. Let the birthday child go crazy and make sure to get pictures as they trash enjoy their very own mini-cake.
.PDF Pattern for #1 Cake
To make your own amazing #1 cake, start by downloading this pattern that gives you cutting dimensions for 8″x8″ cake pans, 9″x9″ pans, and a 9″x13″ pan. The patterns are a .PDF file (requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader). Download here: #1 Cake Patterns.
Cut cake apart according to the dimensions shown in the #1 Cake Patterns. I use a shish kabob skewer to mark the cake for cutting. The skewer is long, flat, straight, and when pressed lightly into the cake leaves a slight impression perfect as a cutting guideline. When making a two layer cake, I stack the cakes and cut both at once (later taking them apart to add the middle frosting).
Decorate the #1 as desired. Decorate the 4″x4″ cake and the additional pieces as individual servings. For the pictured purple cake, I used sugar decorations that I made myself.
#1 Cake Pan
Now, if you prefer to avoid cutting up your own cake, check out the Number One Cake Pan from Wilton.
Cake decorated with children's cereal.
More Decorating Ideas
Decorate a #1 cake with plain buttercream frosting and brightly colored children’s cereal (I used Fruit Loops and Trix).
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