Semi-Homemade Lion Guard Cupcake Cake 

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My kids love the new Lion Guard show on Disney Junior. Zuka Zama! I have this thing about homemade cakes for birthdays. I recognize that a store-bought cake would most likely better match the desires of my kids on their birthday, but my mom always made us a homemade birthday cake, so for me it’s a kind of tradition. For this cake, I cheated a little bit. I bought the cakes, and assembled them into a cute Lion Guard cupcake cake to save time. Baby number 3 after all 😉

To Make the Lion Guard Cupcake Cake

What you need:

• one round cake (we used a mini store-bought round cake)
• enough cupcakes to fit around the circumference of your round cake
• vanilla frosting
• yellow and orange food coloring (Want a natural dye? Try this one.)
• piping bag with star tip
• black icing gel
• candy eyeballs

What to do:

1. Frost the sides of the round cake. (If store-bought, slice the top of the cake off to get rid of the frosting).
2. Cut off enough of the top of the cake so that it is the same height as the cupcakes.
3. If cupcakes are store-bought, remove frosting.
4. Add orange food coloring to half of the vanilla frosting, and yellow to the other half.
5. Frost the cake with orange frosting.
6. Assemble the cupcakes around the side of the cake.
7. Using the piping bag, staring at the inside of the cupcakes, frost the cupcakes with the yellow frosting in an outward direction.
8. Continue until it looks like a lion mane (see photo below).
9. Add the candy eyes, and a lion mouth with the black icing gel.

The finished product was really quite cute!

The adults ate the cupcakes, and the face was perfect as a smash cake!

He was so cute in his little lion mane (just pieces of fuzzy yard tied onto a long string!) Stay tuned…we also have a homemade Lion Guard piñata! 

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