When talk­ing with Mr. G about what kind of birth­day party he would like and par­tic­u­larly what kind of cake he said. “Not cake, cup­cakes!” Ok, What kind of cup­cakes then?  “Oh…Perry the Platy­pus ones!”

Which meant I had to fig­ure out how to make them. After scour­ing the inter­net I found a sim­ple idea on the Dis­ney Family.com site for the Perry the Platy­pus Cup­cakes.  I also found sev­eral other good ideas for Phineas & Ferb related items. Because God how we love that show. I mean THE KIDS. The kids love that show (and us, adults, we love it too…shhh don’t tell anyone).

So after an already busy morn­ing rush­ing around for work, right before the party, I came home frosted cup­cakes (old school style) with deli­cious home­made but­ter­cream frost­ing & then began to con­struct the cup­cakes. Why? Because I am crazy woman that’s why.

I used:

Blue Rasp­berry Air­heads, 1/2 of one for his body

Vanilla wafers, 1/2 of one for his tail

Candy eyes, attached with frosting

Marzi­pan, for his mouth (food col­or­ing added for color)

Over­all I think it was a good first try. I haven’t really ever tried to work with candy to make char­ac­ters. In fact, I haven’t really worked with much of any­thing to make char­ac­ters out of food. Candy or otherwise.

I will say this I found the air­heads bent over when the cup­cakes were sit­ting out before serv­ing and that made some of the cup­cakes look wonky. I also did not quite get the col­or­ing on the tail or the mouth to be what I wanted. I do think cir­cus peanuts candy would have been bet­ter to achieve the right color but we couldn’t find any in time. The same goes for the eyes, mini choco­late chips I think would have stood out more for the eyes like Perry’s eyes do.  But Mr. G loves these eyes & since it was HIS birth­day he got the eyes he loved.  And given our time crunch, which is never end­ing it seems, we decided (I decided) to go with what was eas­i­est in all categories.

But I don’t think Mr. G minded one bit any of the flaws.  Instead he loved them!  He was so happy watch­ing them be made & even hap­pier to eat them. The only thing he said would have made them even cooler would have been a lit­tle hat so Perry could become Agent P.

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