Mario 1up

What better for a birthday than a 1up mushroom from Super Mario. This is another swim party cake, but for once the parent asked for a theme. Mario is certainly a theme I can work with. I got inspired by this one and did something way more elaborate than I would normally do for one of these.

The base of the cake was a two layer 10" cake. It was covered with blue buttercream to make the sky background, then partially covered with fondant to represent the clouds. I made the castle from the game and the little shrubs with eyes that are so cool in the backgrounds. The castle has the child's age on it as a nice little touch.

The face of the mushroom is two layers of 6" cake. That tier was also covered with fondant and I added the eyes. That one was pretty easy.

The top layer was the tough one. It was two layers of eight inch diameter cakes with a little bit of the 6" leftover cake that I took off to cut down the height of the 6" layers. I then had to shape the mushroom top. The top was covered with buttecream icing to make the fondant stick and then covered with green marshmallow fondant. The white spots were spaced out somewhat evenly to give a good view from all sides.

I got to the site and set up the cake. While I was setting it up, there were classes going on and several parents sat around and watched me finish the cake. I asked a couple of times if it was a cake or not. When the mother of the birthday boy got there, she had some Mario Kart cars to put on the cake. I knew she was going to bring some figures, but I didn't know they were Mario Kart, or I would have used that theme. It worked out great though, because there was just enough room around the edges of the mushroom to put the carts around the top of the lower tier. I absolutely love how it turned out.