This cake was entirely planned by and prepared for by my friend Amelia for her daughter’s third birthday. But I was there to document and help frost, so I wanted to share 🙂
Good thing Hello Kitty will be wearing full hair and make-up for the party!
Starting with hair….
Sprinkle assistance
Foundation layer complete… It was difficult to frost the rest of Hello Kitty’s face without getting her bow in it!
One set of whiskers on…
Comparison
Ready to party
I designed a birthday brownie flag, incorporating a silly saying/nick-name that had been created the month prior… printed the designs out, wrapped the two-sided design around a toothpick, glued the halves together, and placed one in the top of each brownie slice 🙂 I made the brownies in an edge pan, similar to this one, and used a Marbled Cheesecake Brownie recipe that came with the pan.
I never realized how much work goes into a simple tiered cake like this! But I made this white cake with passion fruit filling and vanilla buttercream frosting for my brother’s wedding. I baked each layer and froze them separately (few days a head of time), then assembled each tier, chilled it, crumb coated it, chilled it again, and frosted it with its final layers. Day of the wedding, I brought each tier separately along with my wooden support dowels and assembled on the spot – I didn’t have any cake carriers tall enough for the whole thing! My Mom supplied fresh flowers and my sister helped me arrange them. There were a few rough spots on the frosting, but the flowers were great to cover those areas up. We only had an hour at the site before the event started, so it was quite a rush, but we did it 🙂
This cake required a test run… i made these cakes, froze them, crumb-coated them, and froze again until I had time to test assemble… here they are thawing out… cakes everywhere!
Cake!
Good consistency
Next time, I would put more passion into the filling and give myself a little more time for assembling and adding finishing touches.
Assembling the tiers on site
Final icing piping
awaiting cupcakes from another vendor…
‘Sex and the City’ themed Bachelorette Party cupcakes 🙂
(not quite fuscia like the logo – but you get the idea :))
For my friend Caroline’s birthday, I made these Chocolate Mocha cupcakes with coffee beans on top 🙂
Have you ever seen these fun cakes before? Bake them like this….
And you end up with this….!
