Pass me a Cigar

A special thank you to Barbie, who requested that I decorate a couple of birthday cakes for two very special people.  Her husband Sheldon and their son Reed.

Reed's cake was to serve six, so I decorated a 6" round.  The flavour was chocolate, and I decorated it with green fondant.  I added some yellow coloured buttercream to accent it.

Barbara's hubby Sheldon was turning 65 and he has a fondness for a good cigar now and then.  With this information, I decorated a red velvet buttercream cake and added a fondant number 65 designed as cigars.

Delish!

Sasha Turns 4!

Hmm... Don't know if you remember my niece Sasha?  Well I'm sure you do.  Last year I had the honour of decorating a cake for her 3rd birthday. 

Well OMG!  Sasha's turning 4, and I shall be decorating her cake again.  (Yey!)

So before, she was all about The Little Mermaid.  This year, girlfriend is all grown up and of course her tastes have changed.  Sasha is all about The Backyardigans. 

Who?  What do I know about the latest cartoons.  I'm (ahem) 40.  But I never back down from a challenge.

I am quite loving how this 2 layered chocolate cake turned out.  Now I know the pink fondant character's name is Uniqua.  Please help me out if you know who her blue friend is.

Tinkerbell Cake

Thank you so much to my friend Tricia who requested that I decorate a cake for her daughter Tia.  Tia is turning two and is apparently a fan of Tinkerbell.

This cake is a two layered white cake and is covered in buttercream icing.  I was able to apply the image to the cake using the cocoa transfer method. 

I enlarged a coloring sheet of Tinkerbell, then printed it out. Then I taped it to a small empty box. I used a push pin to poke small holes all around her for an outline. The picture is placed the picture on top of the cake. I then spread a tsp. of cocoa over the picture to complete the outline.

I removed the picture, and had an outline to do the icing with. I outlined her in black first, then filled in all the other colors next. I also added some gumpaste and royal icing flowers.

And voila!  Tinkerbell!