Need a cute frog birthday cake?
It’s a Frog Birthday Cake right out of your little Prince’s (or Princess’s) favorite fairy tale. Maybe you can’t turn every frog into a Prince but you sure can make someone’s wishes come true at your next birthday party with an inspired design like this.
With a Rice Krispie ® frog and Tootsie Roll ® reeds surrounding the pond, this Frog Birthday Cake puts a whole new spin on some nostalgic favorites. I don’t know about you but my Rice Krispie Treats ® never looked like this when I was a kid!
To complete your party theme, check out these great co-ordinating party supplies
ingredients
birthday cake - frog birthday cake
- Cake - Choc Chip Pound Cake is perfect
- Filling – you can’t go wrong with Cookies & Cream filling
- green candy melts
- 1 batch of buttercream
- sky blue, royal blue and yellow gel food color
- black piping gel
- Vanilla cookie crumbs (Nilla Wafers are good)
- Ziploc sandwich bags or disposable decorating bags
- eight small Tootsie Rolls, or similar chewy chocolate candy
- 3 cake decorating skewers
or small bamboo stakes
- two chocolate or root beer flavored suckers for the frogs’ eyes
- one fruit roll-up to make the crown
- Green candy melts
for the grass
- Cake plate or board large enough to display the finished cake
baking
birthday cake - frog birthday cake
- bake the cakes and cool completely.
- level the cakes and split each into two layers horizontally.
- fill and assemble each cake on a separate cake circle
and secure with a dollop of frosting to stop it from sliding around.
- add a crumb coat - this is a very thin coat of un-tinted buttercream you apply to 'set' the crumbs.
- refrigerate the cake(s) for an hour or so to let the crumb coat set.
Chocolate grass
birthday cake - frog birthday cake
- melt the candy melts in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each interval, until completely melted.
- using the back of a spoon, smear some strips of melted chocolate about 1/8 inch thick on to a piece of wax paper, as shown (below left).
- let set for about 30 minutes then, using a large knife, cut randomly across the strip of chocolate to make small shards, as shown (below right). It’s that simple – now you have grass!
the Frog Prince
birthday cake - frog birthday cake
- 1 ½ tablespoons butter or margarine
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
- 3 cups Rice Krispies, or similar cereal (rice bubbles etc.)
- in a microwave safe bowl, heat marshmallows and butter until smooth and melted – about three minutes, stirring after two minutes.
- add Rice Krispies ® and mix until well coated with marshmallow butter mixture.
- let sit for about 20 minutes until set a little and a handful will hold its shape.
- take some Rice Krispie ® mix and squeeze into a tennis ball size and shape to form the frogs’ body.
- add some smaller amounts of the mix to the top and sides to form rough head and leg shapes, as shown. Let set completely.
- use a small serrated knife to sculpt the frogs webbed feet and add a little detail.
- using a paintbrush and melted Green candy melts, add two thin coats of chocolate all over your Rice Krispie ® frog. Let the chocolate set.
- cut the two sucker sticks to about ½ inch length and push into frogs’ head in appropriate places to form eyes.
- with your Black decorators gel, fill in a circle on each sucker to act as the iris.
- using white frosting and a Ziploc bag, pipe a small white dot at the top of the iris, as shown.
Assembly
birthday cake - frog birthday cake
- divide the buttercream in to four bowls.
- Leave one white and tint the others light blue, dark blue and lime green.
- frost the top and sides of your cake with blue frosting, graduating from dark at the top edge to light blue around the center of the side and green at the bottom, as shown.
- position the frog, securing it with a few dollops of frosting.
- using the white frosting and a disposable decorating bag or a Ziploc bag, pipe a group of 1/8" inch circles on back and shoulder areas, as shown.
- position the chocolate shards into the frosting around the base of the cake in varying heights and groups to form the grass.
- put some grass ‘clumps’ around the bottom of the frog to add some detail to the scene.
- sprinkle vanilla cookie crumb ‘sand’ around the base of the cake and around the frog.
- roll a Tootsie Roll ® into a rounded cylinder shape about one inch long and insert a skewer through the center so that the candy sits right on one end.
- repeat for each Tootsie Roll ® and place in groups of two and three around the edge of the cake to form the ‘Cats Tail’ reeds surrounding the frogs’ pond.
- cut a crown from a fruit roll-up as you would if you were making a paper crown and join the ends just by overlapping and applying pressure.
- pipe a ring of frosting to rest the crown in and pipe some small dots around the base of the crown and on each point to act as jewels.
- using the green frosting and a a disposable decorating bag or Ziploc bag, pipe a mouth on your frog in whatever expression you like.
- using the black decorators’ gel, pipe two small circles just above the mouth to form nostrils.
You're done! Now go get a well deserved cup of coffee and sit back for a few minutes to admire your handiwork. Remember to take a picture while your masterpiece still looks perfect.
looking for something in particular?
If you want to find something in a hurry? No Problem. Find the answers you need here:
search this site
still have questions?
If you still have any questions about baking, assembling or decorating a cake, ask them here!
let's throw a frog birthday party
Got the perfect Frog Birthday Cake? Check. Now all you need for a memorable party is some fun, co-ordinating party supplies.
You can find everything you need right here. Check it out:
 Frog Friends Deluxe Box Price: 49.99 |
 Frog Friends Party Birthday Box Price: 24.99 |
keep the excitement going
Never be short of a great cake idea at a moment's notice.
Sign up for the "Too Nice To Slice" newsletter and get fantastic insider tips, tricks and out of the box cake decorating ideas delivered right to your inbox.
share the love
If you like what you see, why not share this site with your friends? There's always something new baking around here.
