Caterpillar Cakes

I took the day off work today to run errands, take Mathew to the doctor, and to bake and decorate a cake for his birthday tomorrow. I picked a caterpillar cake, actually two of them. I found the cake pan at Williams Sonoma. Each caterpillar is made of 8 pieces. The cakes took longer to complete that I thought. After baking and cooling the little "cake-lets", the decorating began. I frosted parts of the cake in red, yellow, blue, and green.


Then I sprinkled them with colored sugar...


brushing off the excess with a paintbrush.

I practiced on the body pieces before attempting the head.

Finally! The catepillars started to take shape...

I found these twirly "antennae" candles at the grocery store.

I am NOT a baker... and most certainly NOT a cake decorator, so I was pleased that the cakes turned out!