A few weeks ago I asked Shelby what kind of cake she wanted. Her answer: A pink cake with all the Princesses. I had no idea how I was going to pull this off. Her Elmo Cake from her 2nd birthday was easy and her Incredible Cake I did last year wasn't too bad either, thanks to lovely little trick I learned in frozen buttercream transfers. I spent a lot of time browsing the Internet looking for ideas for a Princess Cake. Most of them seemed way too over the top for me to attempt. The more I looked at cakes the more worried I became about getting ALL the princesses on her cake. The buttercream transfer idea would work, but it would be way too hard/time consuming for me to do that kind of cake. Luckily, Shelby came home one day with a little Cinderella figurine that would be PERFECT to put on top of her cake. I went from toy store to toy store looking for additional Princess figurines with no luck. I found a few options on the Internet, but I wasn't willing to spend $25 for cake toppers. Then one day I stopped at the Dollar Tree for some coloring books and much to my surprise I found 4 more Princess figurines at a price I was willing to spend! Yay! Now, I just had to figure out what her cake should look like...
I spent most of the day Thursday making her birthday cake. Shelby wanted a chocolate cake with white frosting on the inside and pink frosting on the outside. Since I am not good at frosting a cake smooth I thought I'd try making marshmallow fondant. Making the fondant was SUPER easy. I also saw a lovely tutorial on how to make fondant roses and leaves and gave that a try. Also, super duper easy.
I wish you all could have seen the look on Shelby's face when I showed her the finished cake. Totally made all that hard work worth it.
Here is the cake before I put the candles on
And a view of the back
Shelby saw the "magic wand" candles at the grocery store and she fell in love with them.
3 comments:
Those are some serious cake decorating skills! I love how it turned out.
GORGEOUS. I am impressed with your fondant. Sometimes it looks so plasticy, but yours looks awesome. Was it tasty? The problem with fondant is that it often tastes gross.
Looks awesome - great job, Ann! Shelby is a very lucky girl and it looks like she adored the cake!
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