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a Wizard of Oz cake on a dessert table
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Wizard of Oz Birthday Cake

This Wizard of Oz Birthday Cake is a Mocha Cheesecake decorated with buttercream and cardstock silhouettes to resemble the characters walking down the yellow brick road toward Emerald City.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 1 hour
Chill Time 1 hour
Total Time 2 hours
Servings 12
Author Meghan

Equipment

  • 1 Small offset icing spatula
  • disposable piping bags
  • plastic tip couplers
  • Grass icing tip
  • Small flower tips
  • Cardstock silhouette of Wizard of Oz characters and Emerald City attached to toothpicks

Ingredients

  • 1 cake or cheesecake
  • 2 batches Easy Vanilla Buttercream
  • Yellow, green, pink and red food coloring gels preferably red no-taste gel
  • White sugar pearls
  • 2 Green rock candy on a stick
  • 2 Rainbow swirl lollipops

Instructions

Decorate with Buttercream

  • The first step is to make the yellow brick road. To do this, tint some buttercream with yellow gel food coloring.
  • Spread on the yellow buttercream using a small offset icing spatula. Make it as smooth as you can, and don't worry about the boundaries because you will cover those with buttercream grass.
  • Refrigerate the cake to chill the buttercream.
  • Once the buttercream is cold, take a sharp paring knife and drag it through the buttercream to make a brick pattern. The easiest way to do this is to make many evenly spaced, horizontal parallel lines across the buttercream and then come in and make offset vertical lines to create the individual bricks.
  • Tint some buttercream green and use a grass tip to pipe on the fields over the entire exposed cake so that only the yellow brick road shows.
    a cake with a yellow brick road and grass in buttercream
  • Tint some buttercream with pink food gel and some with red food gel.
  • Use small flower tips to pipe on the pink and red "poppies" in random spots in the "grass."
    a cake decorated with a buttercream yellow brick road, grass and poppy flowers
  • If desired, place a white sugar pearl in the center of each of the pink poppy.

Add the Cardstock Picks and Candy

  • Place the Emerald City design toward the back of the cake, as if it were far off in the distance.
  • Break the little wooden ball off the end of two pieces of green rock candy. Stick them into the cake, candy side up, close to the Emerald City cardstock.
  • Take two rainbow swirl lollipops and place them a little closer to the front of the cake, at about the mid point.
    an above view of a buttercream yellow brick road on a cake
  • Place the black silhouette figures toward the front of the cake, across the yellow brick road as if they were walking down toward Emerald City, with the black facing the front of the cake.
    a Wizard of Oz cheesecake decorated with a yellow brick road and silhouettes of the characters
  • Put Toto just a bit in front of the line of characters to give a little more depth.

Notes

Mocha Cheesecake recipe HERE
Easy Vanilla Buttercream recipe HERE
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