I set off on an adventure last week, I decided to make Lauren's first birthday cake a little more than just a box of mix and a can of frosting. I have a great friend who does novelty cakes and we have been doing some fun stuff together. So, I thought I would try all by myself to make Lauren's cake and add fondant frosting with some decorations. Here is how it turned out...
The bottom layer is 8", the top is 6", and the cake itself is a strawberry cake mix with lots of good stuff added to it like a cheesecake pudding mix, extra flour, sugar, and some sour cream. It was really moist and yummy!
The lady bugs were a last minute addition and were just perfect! Lauren is a Halloween baby and she is only one so she really isn't going to care too much for witches, jack-o-lanterns, or anything scary so I made her cake cute and sweet.
The little birthday girl.
Close-up of a lady bug. They were pretty simple to make. I rolled a ball of black fondant and used two petals from the smaller flower as wings and then added tiny black dots. Cute and simple! I have to admit, IT WAS A LOT OF WORK!
Hats off to those who make cakes professionally!
I didn't realize how much time it would take to put it all together; there was making the cake mix, baking the cake, making the fondant, dying the fondant different colors, rolling out the white fondant, covering the cake layers, rolling out the colored fondant, cutting out the flowers, placing the flowers, making the ladybugs, and then finishing off the cake with the white fondant rope on the edges. I didn't keep track of how long this took but it was a few hours...at the least! But it was worth it :)
Happy first birthday Lauren.
