Not much of a post here and I am not the first one to do this idea, however, I have a co-worker that LOVES Pokemon, specifically fire types, but hates the color orange and I find that to be so ironic I couldn't pass up the opportunity on her birthday to celebrate. The first year I made her a Charmander (our friend on the left) because he is absolutely adorable, pretty simple, and orange. She loved him and asked if he would evolve next year. I couldn't say no, so in the middle we have last year's cake, with Charmeleon, and this years cake, Charizard. Each year got increasingly complicated, and I wanted to be able to share my hard work. The cake itself is nothing special, just your favorite box cake flavor, then I got two tubs of vanilla frosting. I sketched the picture on the cake in the frosting with just a toothpick so that if I didn't like something I just had to smooth it out and start over. Once satisfied with the sketch I went over the outline in black frosting. After outlining it I put the frosting that was left into smaller ziploc bags to die them to the correct color, snipped the edge and filled it in. She was happy with the final product! (sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it lit, but we were worried we were going to set off the smoke detectors in the school and had to act fast!) Bonus Pinata
![]() Then with my handy hot glue gun I glued the orange ribbon around the and attached them to the back of his head. Next, used the glue gun to glue the tissue paper around the cardboard, trimming off extra pieces. For extra detail I ran ribbon along the edge of the wing too to tie them together. I'd glue a small straight portion, fasten ribbon then cut a slit allowing it to turn at the curves and repeated until the end. For the tail I gathered red, orange and yellow tissue paper and cut them into a small square all the same size. I twisted them so they didn't line up perfect then folded them up. I twisty tied the bottom end to hold them altogether in place. Glue gun gets used again to attach to tail. Final product isn't perfect, but for something that gets beat until it falls apart anyways, it does the job. She knew exactly what (who?) it was and loved him right away. He was worth the extra effort for the extra joy he brought. Hope some of these ideas would be useful to you as well in planning you next Pokemon party! (Or that you enjoyed the photos!)
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