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Cheerios cakes for a first birthday

Some amazingly realistic cakes were made by Lindsey Ewald of Oregon to celebrate the first birthday of her cousin’s little boy – a huge Cheerios fan.

Knowing she’d be up to the challenge, her cousin asked her to make a cake with a Cheerios theme.

And did she ever! In fact, she made two!

We spotted a photo of the cakes on Ewald’s Instagram feed.

“I decided it would be cool to make him a box of Cheerios and a small Cheerio for his ‘mess’ cake,” Ewald says. “I wanted to make it look as real as possible. When I took it to the birthday party and set it on the table, my cousin came out and thought someone had brought a box of Cheerios. It wasn’t until he got closer that he realized it was my cake.”

Pretty impressive, right?

It took Ewald a day and a half to make the cakes, including the five hours it took to frost.

“The hardest part was making it look good. I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to my baked goods. If something didn’t look right, I redid it,” she says

Ewald is a big fan of Honey Nut Cheerios herself and the birthday boy eats them all day long.

He’s quite a lucky kid to enjoy them in both cereal and cake form!

Editor’s note: Photos used with permission of AccendoImages.com.

Kevin Hunt Kevin Hunt is the social media manager in Global Communications for General Mills, based in Minneapolis, Minn. He oversees content, engagement and strategy for the company's social channels. He began his career at General Mills in 2010.

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  • Monika and Darrel Denbrook

    We were there and witnessed the phenom….the cake tasted as good as it looked! Our grandson celebrated his first birthday in style thanks to Lindsey! HIs mother, Erika, also worked hard to make Koen’s Cheerio birthday theme a reality.
    Monika and Darrel Denbrook

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