Curious George Cake

This is a cake I made for my niece last year. Again, I would do several things differently now, but I thought it was a cute idea. I had to incorporate the primary colors as part of the birthday party theme, and they wanted curious George. So he was supposed to be looking out over the cake. Character cakes are VERY difficult to make, b/c you can make a monkey easily, but trying to make one that matches a particular look is much more difficult. Either way, it turned out okay. I ran out of time and just wasn't able to clean up and put in the additional detail I wanted.

French Poodle Cake

This was the first cake I made after my first cake class (which didn't really address fondant; though it did teach me a few things about icing). The poodles and eiffel tower were moulded out of marshmallow fondant as well as the cake covering. The poodle candles were purchased from Oriental Trading. I would now probably make the poodles etc. out of gum paste, because that would probably be a much better consistency. Enjoy!

This was the whole spread with cupcakes included.
I also got most of the part favors, etc. from Oriental Trading. They have so many fun things to choose from.