Rubber Ducky Cake

Bake two 10 inch round cakes, one cup cake, and large egg shaped cake or 6 inch round cake following cake mix instructions. Cool. Stack the two 10" cakes putting icing between layers. Cover with icing as follows, green icing on the sides and the top blue. Take egg shaped cake (which is the body of the duck) cut a piece of card board for it to sit on with out it showing. If using a 6" cake you'll need to crave it to a round shape.

Place the body of the duck on top of the prepared layer cake. Place some icing where the head will be then take the cupcake and with a lollipop stick attach it to the body of the duck. The stick should go down through the body of the duck into the layer cake below. Now with yellow icing and a star tip on a piping bag pip stars all over the duck body and head. Leave a spot for the eyes and the beak. Round tip the orange beak on.

Once the icing on the beak has set up a bit you can use your finger tip dipped in corn starch to smooth it. Round tip black icing eyes. For the wings and tail, I just built up icing stars till it looked like wings and a tail. Pip green icing with a star tip around the top out side edge of the layer cake. Color the piping gel blue and pour around the body of the duck. Take a golf ball size of fondant and knead in brown food coloring.

Paint 8-9 lollipop sticks green with food coloring. With small pieces of the brown fondant wrap around the stick near the top to make the cat tails then stick them in the cake around the duck. Next color the rest of the fondant green. Don't knead the color in completely. It will have a marbled look that way. Roll out the fondant then cut leaf shapes out with a cutter or by hand. You may want to do this ahead of time so they can set up some.

Now pip some icing on the back of each leaf and a fix around the sides of the cake. I also cut of a lily pad for my frog to set on. Add toy frog and or bugs. If you feel creative you could make your own frog and bug out of fondant as I have done. I cut out a cardboard sign covered it with white freezer paper, tape it to a lollipop stick, Piped with a #2 tip the name and stick it into the cake. Serves 20+ people I hope you enjoy making this fun cake. Cake decorating is a hobby of mine. I've been doing it for 1 1/2 years now and have so much fun doing it. I just do cakes for family and friends at this point. Maybe someday I'll do it for a living.