How to Make a Robot Cake

Is your kid crazy about robots? Many boys - and some girls - are fascinated with them. Thats why, if your child has a birthday fast approaching, you should make a robot cake. Actually, its a bunch of cupcakes arranged to look like a large, single robot. Your child will go wild with excitement! Bake 18 cupcakes (or more if needed) to make the robot. Use a boxed mix or your favorite recipe and bake the cupcakes in metallic cupcake liners to help achieve the look of the robot. The cake mix can be any flavor/color you want. Bake then allow to cool completely.

You can use any color combination you want for the robot, but for clarity, well use orange, blue and white. Frost 11 of the cupcakes orange, five cupcakes blue, and two cupcakes white. You can start with white frosting, divide it up, then tint the orange and blue frosting with food coloring.

Start arranging the cupcakes on a large platter or right on the table. Start by placing the two white cupcakes close to the edge of the platter. These will be the eyes of the robot; set them side-by-side. Center an orange cupcake below the two white ones; this will be the robots lower face and neck. Set two blue cupcakes, side-by-side, and center them below the neck of the robot. If you want, leave a space between the white and blue ones, then fill in the space later to make the "neck". Under the two blue cupcakes, set two more, then center a single, blue cupcake under them. These blue cupcakes will represent the body of the robot. Use the remaining orange cupcakes to create arms and legs. Go up to the first set of blue cupcakes which are below the orange neck cupcake, and build the arms from that point. Align three orange cupcakes on one side, and three on the other. Dont make the "arms" go straight out. Arrange them so that they curve out and back towards the body. For the legs, start beside the single, bottom, blue cupcake and begin arranging the cupcakes for the legs. Put three on one side, and three on the other, and position them so that the legs go out, then down. Break graham crackers into single sections and use them as the metallic features on the robot. Frost the graham crackers orange and align them on the arms and legs. Frost some of them blue and align them on the chest. Frost one more and place it between the eyes and the orange cupcake below the eyes. Use small candies, like M&Ms to create a button panel on the chest of the robot. If you want, slide candy fruit rings onto sucker sticks and use these to make antennae. Position two, mini, chocolate donuts on the white cupcakes to make the eyes. Fill the hole of each donut with white frosting then push a junior mint into each one. Cut another donut in half and stick one half to each "hand" cupcake so that the cut areas face the body of the robot. Place another donut on each foot. Further embellish the robot with frosting "bolts" on the cookies or other frosting attributes. The robot cupcake cake is slightly time-consuming to make and assemble but it sure is a sight to behold! If you have a child that loves robots hell certainly love this one - in more ways than one!