Anyone for a Pan cake?

Today is AJ's birthday party, and he wants it to have a Peter Pan theme. This is easier said than done because apparently Disney has all things Peter Pan (except the movie) locked away in some mythical, magical, impregnable "vault". You can buy the movie - though that, too, goes back in "the vault" after today - and all sorts of things with Tinkerbell, but nothing else with Peter Pan.

So what's a Mom to do? Turn to clip art.

So without further ado, because I'm so darn proud of how well it turned out, here is the inspiration, and the finished cake.



The biggest challenge was coming up with black frosting for the eye brows, outline, etc. And Jeff actually gets credit for that. Working with red, blue, green and yellow food color, he mixed it to the point that it was a very dark purple. He then turned to the left-over chocolate cupcakes from his birthday, mixed in a lit of the dark brown frosting, and voila!

AJ was quite excited to see the cake last night. He started shuffling his feet in a little dance, then said, "Wow, that's pretty good! I love it!"