minecraft birthday cake

Cake decorating post alert!

Alert! Alert!

I don’t know why I felt the need to give you so many alerts. But hey, there’s some geeky video gaming cake decorating going on over here today and I hope you’ve prepared for it.

S requested a Minecraft birthday cake because apparently he thinks it’s the bee’s knees. I didn’t even try Minecraft until the day after I made this cake so this is like an interpretive cake. I knew it was pixel-y and block-y and there were these dudes and characters in it… and stuff. S wanted to direct me exactly in how he wanted his cake, but Jake convinced him it was best to just leave it up to me. I joked with Jake that next year I’ll probably get schematics and crap next year.

buttercream-frosting

After I made the cake (a Devil’s Food Cake, from a box mix ’cause I was feeling lazy and didn’t want to buy more cocoa powder) I made my favorite buttercream frosting. I divided some of the buttercream into three bowls.


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And made them each a different shade of green!

frosted-shortbread-cookies-green

For my “pixelated” look, I frosted Lorna Doone shortbread cookies. I tried to find the mini ones, but they were only available in mix boxes, so I bought just one box of the shortbread cookies. I frosted a few of them plain white before moving onto the greens. I also changed the shade of green on the lightest shade after I had used it to frost a few cookies. I wanted a lot of variety!

milk-chocolate-buttercream-frosting

The great thing about the buttercream I used was that it was easily adaptable to make chocolate frosting! I think I added maybe 4 or 5 tablespoons of cocoa powder until it tasted “just right”.

chocolate-frosted-square-cake

And I used that to crumb coat and then frost my square cake.

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I used crushed Oreo cookies (crushed quickly and efficiently thanks to our Vitamix) for the “dirt” part since I didn’t have enough cookies to do the full pixelated thing.

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I printed templates online to make the Steve and Creeper characters. They’re just made out of paper since I didn’t have the skillz to recreate them in an edible format.

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Birthday boy got to keep the paper crafts though and that made him pretty happy.

Another successful birthday cake (woooo)!


6 thoughts on “minecraft birthday cake

  1. Very cool cake! I like the different shades on green frosting on the cookies. I feel so old – I barely know about Minecraft but I am aware of it. You really put a lot of time and thought into this. 🙂

    1. Thanks, CC! I didn’t want to use fondant because A) it doesn’t taste good and B) it’s kind of a pain in the ass. The cookies seemed like a better, easier solution though I wish I could have found the mini cookies for more variety.

  2. Hi Mary
    your cake is really awesome, it is totally different from others. Stuffing on a cake is good and looks delicious. I really want to taste this cake, well done Mary…………………….!!!!!!!!!!!

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