Shrek Birthday Cake and Cupcakes
If you’re looking for a shortcut, you can probably find a local bakery or supermarket that offer a Shrek-themed cake. It’s also easy to dress up a simple sheet cake with an edible Shrek cake topper or plastic Shrek cake decorations. Here are some other ideas:
Shrek cake
You can make a Shrek cake at home without the need for a special pan or expert decorating skills. Bake a cake in a round pan, and pour extra batter into two cupcake cups. When the cakes are cool, arrange the two cupcakes on either side of the round “face” where Shrek’s ears should go. Cover the face and ears with green frosting (vanilla frosting tinted green with food coloring). Use a squeeze-tube of black or brown icing to sketch in Shrek’s features (the big wide smile, broad nose and bushy eyebrows). Use candy or gummy eyeballs for the eyes.
Swamp fountain
You can also forgo a cake in favor of a gurgling green swamp fountain. Chocolate fountain machines are widely available (you can pick one up for $25 at Walmart or Amazon) and pick up some green chocolate (colored white chocolate) at a specialty candy or baking supply store. You can also find green chocolate at Michael’s. Bake a simple vanilla cake colored with green food coloring and cut into chunks, along with marshmallows, vanilla cookies and chunks of banana, pineapple or other fruits. Hand out dipping spears or bamboo skewers and let the kids dip their own selections into the fountain. You can also put out bowls of green sprinkles, coconut, etc. for decoration.
Swamp sheet cake
This sheet cake is super-simple, because the kids do all the decorating for you! Bake a sheet cake (you can tint a vanilla cake green or make a chocolate cake) and cover it with green or chocolate frosting. Serve the cake with bowls of gummy worms and bugs, gummy frogs and lizards, crumbled oreo cookie or chocolate wafer “dirt,” pop-rocks, “slime” (translucent gel icing in tubes) and anything else that’s swampy and sweet. Have all the kids decorate the cake to create a gooey, gross swamp.
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Swamp cupcakes: This is the same ideas as the Swamp sheet cake. Bake and frost cupcakes with green or chocolate frosting, and let the kids decorate their own mini-swamp or put cupcake toppers on the top!
