Courtney's Brobee Cake Tutorial

Courtney's twins recently turned two years old, and for their birthday, she made for them this lovely coconut-y Brobee cake!

Courtney shares with us step-by-step instructions so you can make one too!

Ingredients:
2 containers of room temperature, frosting (we chose cream cheese)
1 box of cake mix (we went with carrot cake)
1 bag of coconut flakes
1 black licorice strip
1 fruit strip (we did Fruit-a-bu organic)
Green, yellow, and green food coloring
3 strawberries of similar size

Directions:
Follow the directions to make a 9×13 cake. Make sure your pan is thoroughly greased (I use natural unsalted butter instead of shortening). Let it cool for an hour. Then, place a cutting board flush against the pan so you can flip it over accurately, leaving the pan behind.

Cut the cake in half using a bread knife (this helps reduce the crumbling. Place one half (sideways) on a foil lined cookie sheet. Cut the other into 4 long strips. Leave the end strip, in case you make a mistake and need it as a replacement piece.

Cut an angle on the end of two strips so you create the long arms. Cut the 4th strip in half to make two short legs. Use icing between the pieces to assemble the body shape on the cookie sheet.

Cover the body pieces in frosting. You will get pieces of the cake crumbles in the frosting. That is OK at this step. Just make sure ALL of the cake is covered, especially the cut sides.

Put the cake in the fridge for 1/2 hour. This will allow the frosting to harden.

While the cake is in the fridge, put a cup of coconut flakes in a ziploc baggie. Add 2 drops of green food coloring and 5 of yellow. Shut the bag and use your hands to move the flakes around, coating them to the desired color. You may have to add more food coloring.

Use a 2nd bag to place 1/2 cup of coconut flakes. Just use green in this one. I think I used about 5-6 drops of green to get a DARK green color.

In a 3rd bag, put about 1 TBS of the 2nd container of icing in it. Add red food coloring until you get a bright red color. Try to keep the colored icing in the one corner.

Cut a U shape (Brobee’s mouth) out of a fruit strip. Cut the corner off the red colored icing bag and use that to outline the smile (or frown… whichever way you choose to put his mouth).

Now the cake should be hardened. Take it out of the fridge and use the rest of the icing to put a 2nd layer on the cake. This should cover the parts with crumbs in it. After icing, immediately cover the iced cake with the green/yellow flakes.

When that has been completed, use a torn piece of paper to cover most of the cake and leave exposed the areas you wish to have the dark green strips. Put the dark green coconut in those areas. This makes the stripes distinct… and helps to keep the coconut from getting on the other parts of the cake.

Put white icing in the empty corner of the icing bag (or use a new one). Cut off the corner. Use this to create the oval eyes on the cake.

Put the fruit strip/icing mouth on. Cut an end off the black licorice and cut about a 3 inch piece, to create the uni-brow. Cut two more little piece to make the center of the eyes.

Put the 3 strawberries at the top… and TA-DA!!!! You have a Brobee cake!!!!!

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