Dr Seuss Baby Shower Cake Ideas

I think you could probably just make it by doing a little fancy work with some rectangular cake pans. Instead of baking the cake in a round pan, put it in a rectangular pan and bake 2. Use one pretty much as it, but maybe cut a little bit to make it look like the stove-pipe part of the hat. Take the other one and cut it in half lenghtwise and shape it to look like the brim of the hat. Then you can make the stripes with the frosting. I would put a base coat of white frosting over the whole thing to both keep the two pieces kind of secured and make a palette for the rest of your frosting.

If you want to get really fancy...you could bake multiple round cakes and stack them super high. You could even do them in red velvet and white with red/white frosting so it's double layer striped. This would make a more 3D look, where the other is more 2D, the only problem I woudl forsee is that you couldn't get it as tall as you'd like before it might start to tip.

Last idea...for the really ambitious...make cupcakes for each person using regular size cupcakes and mini cupckes. Do one regular size and then stack two minis on top, held together with frosting and then frost the whole thing to look like the hat.

Just some quick ideas from my head...hope they help to get you inspired!

The easiest way to do it would be to bake at least 4 probably 5 8 in round cakes, level them (meaning slice the dome off), stack 2 cakes with icing between the layers, then cut skewers or tea straws to the height of the cake, add another layer of icing, place a cardboard round you have covered in press n seal on top of that, then another 2 layer cake as you did the first. If it looks tall enough you can stop there but you will probably need another layer.

Once you have all the layers assembled use white fondant cut out a circle for the brim of the hat, place it on 3 cake boards that you've hot glued together and then covered in white contact paper or the special cardboard covering you can get at micheals. Set the stacked cake on to the brim of the hat and very carefully use an icing tip (can be found at micheals and ice strips around the cake, alternating red and white.

I'm on several cake message boards so I can check to see if anyone is in your area but be mindful a custom made cake like that will cost you anywhere from probably $3 a serving and up.

How to get a 3d cake tall without tipping are bubble tea straws! (And making sure each of your rounds are flat... aka slicing off the dome). One can also use dowels, but the giant fat bubbletea straws work as well AND you can cut them to size with scissors.

I've never made one of these before, but have you checked out this site? http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.com/dr-seuss-birthday.html looks like they have some great ideas and pointers.

Good luck!
Hilary

very first thought was: red & white stripes! It can be done with fondant or with colored sugar. When I think of Dr. Seuss, I think bright colors & lots of graphics, particularly stripes & dots. Take your cue from the books & you'll blast this one out of the ballpark!