This cake was made for Maya’s farm themed 3rd birthday party.  It was so much fun to make!  Maya’s mom loved a cake made by Pink Cake Box and asked me to use their design as inspiration in making this kosher cake.

Here are 3 little fondant ducks, all in a row.  They are so cute!  You can also see some little ladybugs just chilling in the grass.  To make the grass, I tinted some non-dairy “buttercream” green using leaf green gel color.  Then I piped the little blades of grass using a grass tip.  It’s such an easy trick but makes such a great effect on the cake!

Here is a better look at a pig and sheep I made.  They are all made of fondant and therefore edible, but I can’t imagine anyone eating them, they are too adorable!

Here are some more little ducks just quacking along.  Happy 3rd birthday Maya!

This is a cake made to look like a MacKenzie-Childs cake plate.  My friend asked me to replicate a special cake plate that her mother-in-law once owned that had recently broken. She absolutely loved this cake plate and was sad when it broke; especially since the company no longer makes this design.

The flowers are all painted by hand.  I used gel food colors for my paint.  Since the gel colors are very thick, I used some vodka to thin them out until I had a nice watercolor consistency.  I hand painted the checkerboard pattern on the cake board too.

Here is the other side of the cake plate.  This was my first time painting a cake and I really enjoyed it!  It brought me back to art class in high school.  I loved that class, it was definitely my favorite subject in school.

I carved ridges at the top of the cake to replicate the ridges in the top of the cake plate.  It was a little hard to paint but that little detail really brings the cake plate to life.

Here is the top view of the cake.  I painted those loop details with gold airbrush color and topped it off with a knob made of chocolate brown fondant.  I love how this cake turned out!  I still can’t believe that I actually made it!

There is a really cute television show on PBS called Super Why!  The show title ends in an exclamation point which is weird and makes me seem like I am really excited every time I write it.  The show is super cute, it takes children on reading adventures one episode at a time.  Here is the cake I came up with for Dovi’s 2nd birthday party.

The cake was airbrushed from light green fading to blue.  The grass was hand cut and embossed using a silicone leaf mold press.  I really love the clouds, they are my favorite part.  It really makes Wyatt’s cape look like it’s blowing in the wind.  Wyatt is the main character on the show.  He has the power to read.  He changes the story to save the day.

Here he is up close.  Each color is cut out of fondant and pieced together like a puzzle.  I learned this trick from Cakes With L.O.V.E.  They have some great tutorials on their facebook page.  I surrounded Wyatt with the shows signature question marks so he could save the day.

Happy 2nd Birthday Super Dovi!