Birthday kake

So. After months of drooling over other people's talented creations, I decided to get myself into a Wilton class to learn how to do it. I'm on the very last of the courses (4 total) and will be very happy when it is done. It has been loads of fun and a good learning experience but the amount of time/effort it takes to get ready for each class has been taxing (not to mention all that cake to make!) This weekend I tried out some of those skills on my niece's birthday cake...

Designed around her theme, "Birthday Diva"



The "smash cake" which was covered in fondant
and not as messy as a traditional smash cake.
It was supposed to look like the Birthday Girl's hat.


Because I'm critical of myself, there are things about the cake I wish I could have done better. The fondant creased around the bottom of the cake in parts because I wasn't as patient as I should have been when covering. The fuzz on the hat could have used some more work. The letters from the letter form weren't exactly the same font as the decor but for the most part they turned out ok (aside from some jagged edges).

There are things I liked. The colors worked out well, the leopard print also turned out better than I had thought in my head. I just took the dark pink fondant, rolled it out to double the finished thickness, took little balls of the light fondant and placed it on the pink fondant and rolled out the fondant the rest of the way. Then the shapes were cut out with leaf shapes and pieces were trimmed to make them less uniform.

The cake itself was a vanilla cake with strawberry buttercream frosting.

All in all, a good go at making a full sized birthday cake. Even made the 5p.m. deadline!