yo gabba gabba brobee cake....!

....if anyone has little kids like 6 and under....you may know this guy....he's from the kids show yo gabba gabba...it's kinda like a new version of sesame street...lots of pretty neat guest stars....lots of cool music....weird looking puppets...including this little dude....his name is brobee and he thinks hugs are fun....

....start with 2 sheet cakes ....these are 2 9X13 cakes...1 chocolate and 1 vanilla from boxed mixes....slice each in half to give 2 thinner layers....frost half and then add back the other half....

....then carve the brobee shape....which was based on a pic i found on google images (btw-what did cake makers do before you could go do a google search for a pic...? buy books?...go to the library?...i wouldn't even know where to start without the internet!)....i used part of the cut aways from the leg area to make the arms and filled in with extra pieces as needed to make it look "right"....

....then crumb coat.....

....then fill in the different color green stripes with frosting (and is it frosting or icing...? and is there a difference??)....to make it look like "fur" i used a wilton grass tip....the sides were a bit impossible to do with the grass tip since my hands warmed the icing too much seemed to not stick well to the sides....AND i was running out of dark green....AND the zip lock bag i was using sprung a hole near the icing tip....AND it was getting late and i was too lazy to make more icing so the sides were just iced any which way i could to cover it with the dark and light green together.....

.......brobee apparently has horns....so they were made with sugar cones dipped in red candy melt......his eyes are white icing and the black monobrow and outline around his eyes are black royal icing.....oh and the red mouth is candy melt too...

.....and you get brobee from yo gabba gabba.....anyone for a dancy dance....?

....this is 1 of 2 cakes for a party on saturday for my twins who recently turned 4!...plus i figured if i was going to get judged on saturday may 21, 2011...i was going to offer a choice of 2 kinds of cake to better my odds....because everyone likes cake...right?

thanks for peeking in on me and brobee and have a great week...!

tidy mom