My Little Pony Cake

Sofia's big 4 cake was a pony themed cake, because we rented a pony for her party (and some small farm animals for petting). So as I thought about what to do for her cake, I knew she wanted bright colors etc., so I went with a My Little Pony cake. I thought about making the ponies out of fondant or gum paste, but there they were available for purchase for a small price, to save me hours of molding....sold!

So as part of the birthday fun, we decorated cupcakes, so I felt I could get away with a relatively small cake. This one was a double 10" cake. Covered in fondant with fondant flower and heart cut outs. A gum paste rainbow and butter cream clouds. Also the pony behind sat on a 3D sun (difficult to tell from these pictures) The birthday girl was very happy with her confectionary model, so mommy was too. I was going for more of a color theme, than "my little pony" so I found these adorable cupcake plates and scooped up a few for fun! Hope you enjoy!

My Attempt At Formality

So I was very leary of doing my mom's cake for her 50th birthday because I couldn't think of anything whimsical to do, so it had to be elegant. Elegant is not my forte... I'm more into fun and quirky, but here goes nothing right?!

Well here's the picture of how it turned out...not to shabby, right? It really ended up looking more like a wedding cake, but then again, how do you do elegant and not make it look like a wedding cake? So the cake was an almond cake with sweetened condensed cream in the middle layer and cream cheese icing...so rich, so tasty! It was covered white fondant. I decorated it with a fondant sash and roses and a calla lily made from gumpaste. These were my first attempt at making roses and I think they came out really nicely! My mom loved the look and taste of the cake, though she kept insisting it was too fancy for her! Silly mom....she looks great for 50, huh? ;)

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.