This cake has become pretty popular since I made it, yet I have not gotten around to posting it here until now. Better late than never though! I wish I had shared it here earlier because now I cna’t remember exactly how I constructed it. I definitely made a paper template to carve the cake because I still have it, but I don’t exactly remember which size cakes I baked. Oops sorry!

I covered the whole cake in this pretty light green fondant. I think I used mint green and a touch of sky blue gel color to create this color. I love making these edible fondant stethoscopes. I’ve made a few doctor cakes (you can see them here and here) and I always include them. I start with gray fondant for the metal parts. Then after shaping and placing on the cake I paint them with silver luster dust to give them some sparkle.  The black parts are just black fondant that I buy pre-colored. I also added a little name tag that I cut out of fondant. I piped the lettering on with some black royal icing.

At the bottom of the cake I added two pockets. To make the pockets I cut a rectangle out of the same green fondant. Then I folded part of the rectangle down and used a quilting tool to add some stitching detail. I added that same detail on the sleeves. I couldn’t leave the pockets empty so I made a scissor pop out of one side and a blister pack or medication on the other.  The scissors are just two “P” shaped thin logs of fondant. The medication was also simple to make. I rolled out a thin piece of gray fondant and cut it into a rectangle, slightly rounding the corners.. Then I used the same quilting tool and detailed around the edge. I also made two straight lines down and a few across to create a grid. Then I cut the pills out of red fondant using the end of a straight piping tip. I glued them on with a little sugar glue. That’s pretty much it-simple yet fun!

I am a bit behind on sharing my cakes with you, but I like to put time and effort into everything I share. I also get distracted very easily and often come up with a string of recipes to share. This cake is from May and I made it for my daughters first birthday. Since she is too young to ask for a specific theme, I get to experiment. The cake still needs to be fabulous because my family is expecting something great! I was inspired by this cake by Allison Kelleher of AK Cake Design. It was a total experiment since I have never done anything like this before and although I like how it came out, I have a few changes that I would make next time. I originally covered each tier in fondant and then added the ribbon stripes by wrapping them around the cake. Next time I would wrap the fondant directly on the buttercream kind of like paneling the cake. That would give me a sharper edge and less bulk. It would also save on fondant which is $$.

I had this idea of adding 3D hearts all around the bottom tier to cover up the stripes a bit and add a peekaboo effect. I rolled out some fondant pretty thin and cut strips out. Then I formed some fun and funky heart shapes and allowed them to firm up a bit on a sheet pan. Then I attached them to the cake with some royal icing, but I think next time I would use piping gel or sugar glue. Another change I would make would be making even thinner hearts, these seem a bit too chunky for me-I like light and dainty designs. After attaching all the hearts in a random fashion, I painted some of the edges in silver just to tie in the gum paste tiara cake topper.

Making the stripes is not too difficult, but I did end up with tons of multi color scraps. So I kneaded them all together and created this marbled cake board. Overall I am happy with this cake, but I would love to try it again! Maybe even with some different colors. My little Alexa was happy with it too!

Happy First Birthday!

I guess you can say that this is my most popular cake right now. It totally makes sense though, look how cute it is! Kids love it because of all the transportation included; moms love it because it’s sweet and young and whimsical. Win-win! So this is my second version of this cake. The original had larger cars and trains. I made them smaller to fit more around the cake. I also designed some cloud cutters, car cutters, and a train cutter to speed up the decorating process. You can also purchase the cutters to make this airplane topper. Once you have the cutters, check out my tutorial for putting it all together. Stay tuned for my two tier version of this cake!