Hey guys!

My friend is having a first birthday party for her little girl, and I offered to make her cake. She's incredibly excited that I'm doing it, but of course, I'm having "caker's block" for the main part of it.

My friend is Chinese, her husband is Mexican, and she calls her little girl her little Panda Latina. She asked me to do the bottom tier (of a two-tiered cake) as a very clean, bamboo-rimmed, cherry-blossom-accented pale pink tier. The top tier is to be very bright and obnoxiously striped like a happy Mexican sarape, with perhaps some cacti instead of the bamboo as a border, a sombrero or two. I want the topper to be a RKT baby panda bear ... something super cute ... but I just ca't find a cute-enough picture of a cartoon baby panda to use for inspiration. Truly ... I can't . )Plenty of real fuzzy baby pandas, but no baby panda cartoon that just hits the nail on the head for me to model my topper after.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Have you try in google BABY PANDA CLIP ART I just found some little cute ones. Hope you find one

thanks! I actually have googled it ... just haven't found the perfect panda. Hoping someone might have a picture, or a topper, or a small toy, or a ceramic panda of some sort that you might think is perfect. Ugh! Thanks!

I did one for a baby shower cake.. Instead of the black I used pink.. Don't judge it's my first time playing with fondant...lol... Anyway I hope this might help you...

Do you have the wilton 3d bear pan? You can do the bear to look like a panda, but with some Mexican accessories to sit on top of the cake....

Angelleyes, that's a great idea, thanks! Super cute. Her colors are pink and green anyway, so it would work really well.
Caymancake, no, the servings are way too many for the pan anyway, and I'm very comfortable carving cake, so I would just do that if I wanted a panda shape ... I like the idea of what we're going to do, but I'm just looking for the perfect panda to mold out of fondant or RKT or whatever. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

Thanks, guys!!

Don't know if this is what you are looking for but I found these tutorials:
http://www.deliciouscakedesign.com/blog/?tag=fondant-panda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_VtvjZsaOo&feature=player_embedded
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/09/make-cake-series-panda-and-bamboo.html

What about the Panda from the Littlest Pet Shop?

Thanks so much for all your help, and the tutorials, guys!

I love the LPS panda, hadn't even considered it! This is exactly why I love this site . Yeah!!