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How to Make a Paw Patroller Cake

Does your child love Paw Patrol?? Both of mine sure do! We just celebrated Boo Boo’s 6th birthday in Paw Patrol style 🙂 Keep reading to learn how to make a Paw Patroller Cake below.

Materials Needed

8″x 10″ cake pan
4 box cake mixes – any flavor (you can do a cake from scratch but I find the density to decorate is better with a box cake mix)
Filling for the layers of the cake (I used both Chocolate frosting and Wilton Buttercream – I ended up making a triple batch of buttercream and a double batch of Chocolate Frosting)
Large cake board (I taped two together to get the size I needed)
Wilton tips: 13 (star tip) and 3 (small circle tip)
Wilton Blue, Yellow, and Black Food Coloring Gels
Wilton Piping Bags (I use the disposable plastic bags)
Two Wilton Red Sugar Sheets (they can be purchased at most craft stores – I saw them at Hobby Lobby and A.C. Moore)
Oreos (for the wheels)
Badge (I washed one that we had on had and “borrowed” it)

Instructions

Prepare and bake the cakes according to the box directions
Allow the cakes to cool completely
Cut each cake in half lengthwise (leaving you with two 4″ x 10″ halves)
Place two cake sections on the cake board creating a 4″ x 20″ long base layer
Put frosting on top of the base layer and stack the next two sections on top
Repeat until you have 4 layers of cake
Dirty ice the cake (cover the entire cake with a small amount of frosting to hold the crumbs down and gave you a smooth base to decorate)
Insert dowels as supports (optional – I did this overnight to make sure the cake didn’t lean and removed them the next day when I started decorating)

Cut and apply the red sugar sheet to the roof (measure carefully as you can’t re-cut and moving once stuck is pretty difficult)
Mix your frosting colors (bright blue, dark blue, yellow, light grey and dark grey)
Attach the wheels (I applied a dab of frosting to the backs and stuck them on)
Start piping (this is the time consuming part!) – I used Wilton star tip #13 for all of the piping other than the yellow line and the writing on top of the cake which I used tip #3 for.

I started with the bright blue on the bottom and then moved to the dark blue on the top and then filled in the rest.

I had the Paw Patroller toy sitting next to me on the table to use as a guideline for where to pipe what color – you could also print out a picture
The day of the party I added the candle, piped on a Happy Birthday Message, and added Robo Dog to the top of the cake

I love making cakes for my kids! My daughter was thrilled and that makes the prep time worth it 🙂 Be prepared to spend a large amount of time from baking to decorating (at least a day). I usually bake and dirty ice one day and decorate another to allow myself time to do other things as well – otherwise the cake would take a full day.

Let me know if you try to make a Paw Patroller! I would also love to hear about any other elaborate cakes you have made for your kids. See below for a few of the others I have made.