Birthday Cake for John

Made this cake/
these cupcakes
for John's birthday.
It's the house from Up!
The cupcakes are balloons.

The cake is a Pillsbury Devil's Food, one box, and the colored icing is a stout buttercream, which I made myself and colored with regular food coloring.


The details on the house are made of the colored buttercream, piped out of tiny parchment-paper pastry bags I folded up.

There's also a crumby screenshot of the house from the movie (for comparison).

It took a long time. I guess I've chosen to depict the moment before Carl's house first lifts off, because I included a shrub (azaleas, I presume.)