Tea Pot Cake!

[Brenda]

Tami sent this to me and I had to share---

Tea Pot Cake
2 pkgs. pound cake mix
1 1/2 cups water
4 large eggs
2 cans (16 oz) vanilla frosting (or make your own)
two 1 1/2 quart oven proof bowls
tooth picks
6 inch wooden skewers
1 tube (7 oz) marzipan (found in bakery section of grocery store)
food coloring
confectioners sugar
Floral cake decorations (or make them yourself from the marzipan, food coloring and tiny cookie cutters)
Piping bag and tip

Preheat the oven to 350* F. Spray with Pam and dust lightly with flour. In a medium bowl, using and electric mixer set on medium, beat cake mix, water and eggs until smooth. Pour batter into prepared bowls; smooth tops. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean; about 55 minutes. Transfer to wire cooling racks; cool for 10 minutes. Turn cakes out onto racks. Cool completely. Trim tops off of flat sides of cakes to make level. Reserve one top for the lid.

Assembling:
Spread frosting over the flat top of one cake. Top it with the other cake (makes a little ball) frost with yellow or pink frosting. Place little circular piece of reserved cake on top as the lid, securing with wooden skewers). Frost.

Color the marzipan to match the frosting and shape a tiny handle for the lid, a longer hand for the pot and the spout. Attach these using tooth picks. Place the toothpick into the marzipan from the inside, then holding the marzipan, push the other end of the toothpick into the cake. Decorate the sides of the tea pot with floral cake decorations, or leaves and flowers made from the extra marzipan. Pipe a little decorative bead of colored frosting around the bottom of the lid handle, the lid, and the bottom of the tea pot.

Serves 16.

Tip: The easiest way to slice the cake (once everyone has admired it thoroughly) is to remove the top half of the cake and slice into eight pieces each half.

[Abigail]

Brenda, I have used this cake on a number of occasions for my family. It's very lovely.

Having found the pound cake to be a bit drier than usual, I usually prick the warm cake with a fork then brush with a simple sugar and water or fruit juice glaze before icing.

This same cake was a hit at my baby girl's 2nd birthday, when I adapted it to make 2 large lady bugs.

Using black licorice for antennae and gum drops for spots. (REMOVE THEM BEFORE serving toddlers or just use black decorator cake icing.)

For the eyes: drawn on with icing works well as does large marshmallows and black gumdrops or extra large non-adhesive craft eyes.

[Brenda]

Thanks for the great ideas!!!

[Rush'd Lady]

This sounds like a wonderful cake, so had to bump it back up! Yum!

[Ruthann]

I had a lady bake one for mother's day for my mom a few years ago, she even added 2 tea cup and saucer cakes to go with it - it was darling!

[bearwoman]

just wonderful....thanks ladies...rushed lady your avatar is cool.lol...your silly..lo...nothing to forgive dear...just enjoy the parlor....and keep those ideas coming....im a cake decorater and i so love to hear how people make new cakes...love it.....

[Tracee]

This sounds great. I have seen some photos fo some cakes shaped like a tea pot and there very cool looking!

[Anne]

I am definitely going to give this cake a try for my Halloween Tea. I didn't want to add anything here until I was pretty sure I could make one! LOL This has to be one of the cutest ideas I've seen lately! I'm going to decorate mine in fall colors, with small colored leaves and small gold/orange flowers. I've never heard of this cake before, so this is going to be fun!! Thanks for posting it, Brenda!