How to Make a Paw Patrol Cake

Today I am showing you how to make a Paw Patrol cake shaped like a dog bowl, complete with a hiding dog paw print inside the cake!

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Virtually every child I know under 5 years old is obsessed with this show. Like dangerously obsessed. They have PAW Patrol clothes, bedding, toys, toothbrushes, books, and dish wear….every single thing is dominated by these little pups! I’ve had this idea for a dog bowl cake for quite some time, but I needed something that made it a bit more exciting, because lets face it a dog bowl isn’t that exciting, no matter how cute the toys are.

My niece and nephew are obsessed with PAW Patrol, well at least they were the last time I saw them. Something more popular has probably come around by now and little do I know- they’re in Minnesota and I’m  up here in Canada. By the way, the PAW Patrol show is a Canadian show. Who’d have thunk it? Quick, name one famous Canadian show? I’ve got mine…Littlest Hobo. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you have to look it up on YouTube. We only had two TV channels as kids and it was one of the shows on it all the time and it was a show about a dog, so it ties in perfectly here. 

I chose to make this cake with the paw hiding in the middle a little differently than I normally do. Usually I twice bake the cake, but in order to get the placement of the paw prints in the correct spots, it was necessary to carve out the cake areas that were needed and fill them with cake pop mixture.  I definitely prefer the twice baking method, so you wont see me doing it this way again for a while.

Carving and decorating this cake is definitely easy and any beginner can do a project like this. The only area you need to be careful on is getting the inside paw to look correct.  

How to Make a Paw Patrol Cake

Ingredients

• 3 x 8″ round vanilla cake
• Blue and white vanilla buttercream
• Red, white, blue and yellow Fondant
• Silver edible spray
• Chocolate cake pop mix
• Nesquik cereal
• Paw Patrol Cutters

Procedure

1. Attach first cake layer to the cake board with a swipe of buttercream. Cut out a 6cm round circle divot from the centre of the bottom layer. Fill hole with cake pop mixture.
2. Turn second layer upside down and remove the same amount of cake and fill with cake pop mixture.
3. Flip layer back over and attach to second layer with white buttercream.
4. From the top of the second layer, remove an 11cm in diameter divot and fill with cake pop mix.
5. Flip over the third layer and dig out a 6cm divot and fill with cake pop mix.
6. Carve cake into dog bowl shape, remove a small portion from the top for indentation, and cover entire thing in blue buttercream.
7. Using paw patrol cutters, cut out various fondant pieces. Let dry and place on the front of the cake. Arrange M&M’s in paw prints around the cake and top with cereal.