I am making a Blue's Clue's cake for my son's 2nd b-day. I will be using a sheet cake for the base and the Wilton house pan on top for Steve's/Joe's house. I'll be putting the character's all around the house. The sheet cake will be in chocolate since most of the family likes it the best. I wanted to have some white cake also and thought I could do the house in that. My question is, will the house hold together standing up if it is in white cake? I have heard that you need to use a denser cake for any thing that stands up or it might crack. Also I wanted to make a paw print border but I thought it might be to busy. I thought about maybe doing a ball border and then every third ball making into a paw print by puting the little toe marks above it. I hope that made sense. I'm not sure how it will look. I'll be putting red swirls on the side so I can't put the prints on the side. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Your basic structure sounds very similar to what I did for my daughter's 1st birthday. See below. I used the Wilton house and I just used a chocolate cake mix and added a box of pudding to it. I didn't have any trouble with it. It stood pretty well. What about doing a yellow cake and adding vanilla pudding? I just did that for a cake this weekend and it was pretty dense. You can also push on it lightly when it comes out and kind of compact the cake a little. You could do a pound cake, that would work well, too.

What about doing the paw prints in the same color as you are doing for the cake? I did that with a Sesame Cake. It had shapes around the top and then ABC and 123 around the side. It was subtle but worked. I think it only shows one set in the picture, though.

Does that help?

Thanks,
Those cakes are so cute. I love the animals. I wasn't sure what color I was doing on the bottom cake. At first I thought about green but I didn't know if that would be to much with the house and characters. I also want to do the red swirls on the sides and don't want a green background. I was thinking about just using white for the base and grass here and there and then do the blue paw prints as a border. I wish I could see all the colors together before I do it. That would be a good computer program to have. I am always afraid of using to much color and then when I'm done with my cake I wish I had used more.

I sometimes use colored pencils and do a sketch.