I am doing a cake this weekend for a 2 yr old boy, Elmo theme. I am going to do two 2-layer 9" squares, stacked, and top one quarter turned like building blocks. I want to put on the sides of the bottom some pictures of elmo in various dancing poses. I have several clean images I photocopied out of a book a coworker brought in that are just the right size.

What method would you use to make the elmos to put on the cake? It will probably be 6-7 3.5" elmos. I thought maybe to trace the elmos with a dark royal icing then fill in with red chocolate then pipe on the eyes. I've read about difficuties getting dark, true colors with RI so I can't see using it for the red body.

Thanks,
Dia

Hey if you look at my latest Tinkerbell BCT you can see that white outline works great. I used black on another TInkerbell and thought it was too harsh for that princess. Skip the black out line. Use brown for the eyes.