My Son's Birthday Cake

Yesterday was my son's 10th birthday. He wanted his theme to be Toy Story so I made him this cake with one of the Little Green Men from the movie on it.

Here are my secrets to making this cake-

1. I found a picture online that I thought I could handle and I saved it to my paint program.

2.  I enlarged the picture to fit the cake and printed it out and then drew the balloon and block myself.

3.  I cut out the pictures and layed them on the iced cake (I froze the cake before hand to make it easier).

4.  I used a toothpick to trace around the pictures and then lifted off the paper very carefully.

5.  I used the same toothpick to make my inside lines (belt, eyes, etc.)

6. I  made my frosting colors and then "filled in the lines."

7.  I then used black writing icing to outline the character/toys (and make his mouth) and add detail lines.

8.  I added extra detail to make it special (my son's intials and age).