So my cousin is turning 21 in a few weeks, and she has asked me to make her a birthday cake shaped like, well, a pair of breasts. I have agreed (since both her mother and her aunt refused point blank), however I have a few doubts about how best to proceed…
My main question is how to make the cake bit - I could bake it in a bowl or similar that’s already the right sort of shape, but I’m worried that because it’s so much deeper than a normal cake pan, the middle might not cook properly, whilst the outside dries out. The alternative is to make a couple of normal round cakes, then stack a smaller one on top of a larger one for each breast, and then cut it to shape and smooth with icing.
Does anyone else have experience with this sort of thing? What do you recommend?
As a secondary question, we’ve already decided that one boob will be vanilla, whilst the other is chocolate, but I think the icing will be the same colour on both (probably a pale pink to match my cousin’s skin tone) - is there a particular type of icing that won’t show through the darkness of the chocolate cake underneath, or should I just layer it on nice and thick?
If you think you’ll ever make more breast-shaped cakes, you might google “breast cake mold” and see if any of the hits will would result in an investment that’d serve your needs and budget. Or perhaps you could give her the mold as a gift?
You could use a bundt cake pan, and shove a cupcake in the hole in the middle and then fill the ridges in with frosting or ice cream. You could also fill the hole in the middle with ice cream. You’ll want to store the cakes in the freezer and then transport them in a cooler if you go the ice cream route.
For the chocolate cake, do a crumb coat of frosting, let it firm up a bit, and then do the final layer of frosting.
You can also purchase cake pans shaped like baseballs, soccer balls, etc… Googling seems to indicate that they’re cheaper than breast-shaped pans, which run from about $11 to $25. The one made by Wilton is available on ebay for about $9. I think you can buy them at Target and Wal-Mart. They’re in the craft section at Wal-Mart. ETA: Which doesn’t really help you in the antipodes. You should be able to buy them at a craft store.
I’d buy those candles shaped like numbers and place one on each nipple, personally.
You could make three square sheets of normal cake, stack them with frosting or filling in between, and basically carve the boob shape. Then cover the shape with a sheet of marzipan, dust it with an apropriate mixture of powdered suger and cocoa (to match the recipients skin colour) and decorate with a chocolate or cherry nipple.
I’ve seen molds for these sold in “adult gift” stores.
There are also bakeries that specialize in this sort of thing (there are a couple in our area). It’s entirely possible that you don’t have to bake it yourself.
I obviously shop in the wrong kind of shops… I never even thought that they might make a boob cake pan
Even my local homewares shops (at least 3 of them) don’t make anything as exciting as a ball, so I think I’m stuck with making my own.
But some good ideas…
Now I have to decide whether the boobs will be naked or whether I’ll make a lovely icing bra… Afterall, grandma is coming to the party, and she might be a little shocked (come to think of it, I think that’s the point!)
Wilton used to sell rounded cone shaped pans to make doll cakes for little girls - the rounded cone cake would be the skirt of the doll’s dress, which you’d decorate nicely, then you’d top with a Barbie torso et voila: doll cake fit for a 8-year-old’s birthday! I’m thinking that such a pan, if you can find it, might better fit your needs, since (I think) it’s smaller than traditional round pans and might bake the cake better. Anyway, another idea to look for.
When I bought this Batter Bowl from my Pampered Chef Kitchen Consultant (Sister-in-law), one of the selling points was that I could bake a cake in it. (And then decorate it with this handy frosting/canape/caulk gun thing, only $29.95)
You bake it at a lower temperature for longer so the outside doesn’t get too crispy while you wait for the center to be cooked.
I imagine any similarly shaped pyrex bowl would work.
I received a boob cake at a long ago birthday. It was funny and great and we all had a good time making lewd remarks. Only problem was we couldn’t eat it. The baker had used a regular cake pan and then built up an enormous D++ cup out of pure frosting. Even for those of us who love frosting (and boobs) it was too much of a good thing.
Depending on the cup size you were looking to make you could also make a sheet cake, cut it in the shape of a torso and then get some larger cupcake tins and make the breasts in those and plop them on top of the cake in the appropriate spot.
If you’re not going to be doing one of these again, I wouldn’t go out and buy the mold. I’d bake it in a bowl, that’s the easiet. The Pampered Chef batter bowls are great, but if you have a pyrex mixing bowl, you can bake those also. I’d use a buttercream frosting.
The basic recipie:
1/2 c. butter (margarine will work, but does not tast as good and will leave your frosting slightly yellow in color.)
1/2 c. Crisco
1 lb. powered suger
flavoring to desired taste (usually butter or almond)
Milk for consistency
Cream the butter and crisco together. Slowly add the powered sugar. (you don’t want lumps.) As the mixture thickens, add a tablespoon at a time of milk. I usually use a stand mixer to do this. It’s a pain to do it by hand.
It depends on how large your cakes are, but you will probably need to make a double batch.
It’s pretty simple and will give you good coverage. I’d recommend getting a paste food coloring from the craft store. (Or the craft department of an all purpose store. I don’t know what chains you have.) Once you get your frosting colored, put a scoop of the frosting in a seperate small bowl and add some more of the same color–this will give you a darker shade to fashion the “nipple.”
If you want the smooth appearance of “skin,” you can smooth your frosting after it’s on the cake by dipping your spatula in hot water. Then lighting smoothing the frosting. (Of course, do this before the nipple is put on.)
There’s also these: dome cake pans designed to have filling inside. Look for Bake n’Fill cake pans. You can find really good deals online. If you feel like splurging, I thnk they’d be perfect.
I came into the thread to suggest this very thing. It’s a 3 piece set.
One is a normal-shaped cake pan (roughly the size of a 2-layer cake) where you fill that about 2/3 with batter, then insert another piece that forces a hollow dome inside that; then you either fill that with ice cream, or with another cake baked inside the dome bit (so you wind up with a “two-layer cake” only the interface is a hemisphere rather than a flat thing.
One is a larger dome (but smaller than the “two layer” big one) that can be used if you want a hemisphere-shaped cake for the outer layer.
And the third is the dome insert for use with either of the previous 2 pans.
Either the larger dome, or the smaller one, would do for a boob.
We have this set; Dweezil had seen it in the store and asked about it, and I said it might be fun… so he bought it for me for my birthday :). It was cheaper at the store, because there was no shipping involved. No boobular decorations yet, though we once used it for a hedgehog cake Moon Unit saw in the American Girl magazine.
