Angela's Creations
Penguin Collection
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2007 New Year's Eve wedding.
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Comic Penguin Wedding Cake Tops
Comic Penguin Wedding Cake Tops
Comic Penguin Wedding Cake Tops
Lighted & Lace Cake Tops & Serving Sets
Toasting Flutes/Goblets Guest Book Pen Holders, Guest Books
Baskets, Candle Holders, single Penguins etc.
Realistic Penguin Cake Tops
Directions to make Black Olive Penguin
Penguin Cards for:
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Birthday
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Get Well
Thinking of You
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Black Olive Penguin Appetizers
Jeff & I made 80 of these for our wedding reception around noon the day of the wedding!
Directions are below, they will NOT make 80. We used Jumbo, Large & Small olives. Jumbo & Large for the larger penguins, Large & Small for the smaller penguins. I had colored toothpicks, frilly toothpicks, sword party picks & parasol party picks. You will have some cream cheese left unless you buy more olives, just wanted to make sure you do have plenty. Use the spreadable cream cheese, I did some practice runs months before the wedding, everyone agreed that Garlic & Herb flavor cream cheese was the best, other flavors were nice but the plain was just too blah. Closeup pictures of the penguins are below.
To make Black Olive Penguins, you need:
2 cans of JUMBO black olives, pitted for BODIES
2 cans of LARGE black olives, pitted for HEADS
2 6.5 oz spreadable flavored cream cheese - Garlic & Herb is GREAT!
(Let it warm up so that it will squeeze easy)
3 carrots, sliced into about 1/4 inch rounds
a cake decorating bag with about a #8 round tip
OR use a heavy duty zip bag, sandwich size or quart size with a hole cut in the corner,
start small, you can ALWAYS cut it bigger, but not smaller
Long toothpicks, preferably the frilly party toothpicks. The plastic sword toothpicks will also work. I also bought a package or party parasols to put on a few.
styrofoam sheet or rounds
DIRECTIONS:
Before assembling, take styrofoam sheet, cut jaggedly into "ice floes" the size you need, pinch the edges to make it ragged, cover with plastic wrap, light blue plastic wrap is really nice. I used a heat gun for heat embossing to shrink the plastic, a hair dryer on high might work too.
Then, slice the carrots into 1/4 inch thick rounds; cut a small wedged notch out of each carrot slice to form feet. Save the cut out piece for the beak.
Take jumbo olive, large hole side down over the carrot slice with the wedge already cut out. Cut a sliver from top to bottom, lengthwise, into the front of each jumbo olive. Squeeze cream cheese into the sliver so that it will spread the olive out and form a wide white stomach for the penguin. Squeeze a little bit of cream cheese into the large hole in the smaller olive. Insert the carrot beak into the cream cheese.
Then, set the small olive on top of the jumbo olive, adjusting so that the beak, cream cheese chest and notch in the carrot slice line up. Secure with the toothpick or parasol. Push it far enough into the Styrofoam "ice floe" to make sure they can be moved around without falling off the base.
Closeup of edible penguins!
My Penguin Wedding Cake.
I had to have a very simple design since I was making my own cake in addition to everything else that had to be done. I only had one day before the wedding to make the cake and set up the reception.
I went with a one layer cake because I wanted enough room between the layers for the penguins to play. The cake would have looked nicer but I just THREW the icing on moments before I had to go dress!
I finished my cake top just 30 minutes before I left for the church. I was too busy up to my wedding working at my regular job and making penguin cake tops for other people!
Closeup of my Penguin Cake Top
I had planned on making a lighted cake top with the arch but decided that it would be too tall for this cake. You can't tell in this picture but there ARE lights under the lace.
If you would like pictures of YOUR penguin reception posted here, email me pictures and let me know you'd like it posted!
My Penguin Pen & Pen Holder
I actually had TWO pens, one metallic purple, the other metallic pink.