First Birthday Cake

A friend asked if I could make a cake for her daughters first birthday. A girly first birthday cake, of course!

Seussical Cast Party Cake

The junior high just finished putting on Suessical the Musical Jr. They did such a fantastic job. Of course, I had to make them a cake, or two. The first one is the cat's hat, it's 5 layers of chocolate cake, red is fondant, white is buttercream. Sounds easy, it wasn't ;) The second cake is a 3 layer sheet cake(strawberry and vanilla) I thought it would be fun to put everyone's name on it(WHAT WAS I THINKIN?) It took me about an hour to get all the names on it. I think there were close to 70 names. They were fun to make, and the kids loved seeing their names.

 

I bought the Wilton premade frosting in a tube to get the red and black,
 it's the only way to go, especially since I can put the tips right on the tube.



This one is all frosting accept the red of the hat, that is fondant.
It took me a whole 1oz jar of food coloring to get all this red.



What's black and white and...a little red?

A bridal shower cake for one of the teachers at the school. Not my favorite, I didn't have a lot of time to do this one. I always make a chocolate cake for the school, you just can't go wrong. But this time I added a little raspberry filling in between the layers. I went with an 8" square pan, 3 layers. On top is an 8" round cut into a square. The roses are just rolled fondant and the black ribbon is fondant with a little lace top piped on.