Cake Endeavours

 For Dan's cake this was a 3 layer vanilla cake with buttercream icing.  Dan has a couple of classic cars; a black Trans Am and a blue Camaro.  For the cake toper I cut out a silhouette of a Trans Am and covered the cake in blue buttercream icing to represent the Camaro. For the lettering I cut them out in white cardstock and did a fire ombre effect with my Copic markers. After I was finished I thought the cake could use something more so at the last minute I decide to do the flames around the base of the cake.  I cut out the border on my Cricut Explore in two layers then coloured in the flames.  I love how it turned out!

 For Ken's 65th birthday celebration I made a 3 layer lemon cake with cream cheese icing. I decide to dye some of the icing yellow to add to the decorating and to provide extra icing on top.  There can never be too much cream cheese icing, according to my brother. For the cake topper I designed it on Cricut Design Space and cut out the letters in white then colour them with an ombre effect using my Copic markers.  

 This dinosaur cake was a 10" two layer vanilla cake with salted caramel filling.  I decorated it in blue buttercream icing with some black fondant dinosaur footprints along with some "grass" and "stones" around the base.  Cut out letters in orange fondant for Happy Birthday. Lately, I've really liked doing keepsake cake toppers.  Especially for kids, it's nice to have something that you can have to go in an album or even hang on your wall.  I made this one using my Cricut Explore with different colours of cardstock and vinyl for the letters.  To add some depth to the cardstock I added some distress ink.  To set the topper on the cake I added bubble tea straws into the cake then added double sided foam tape to the top of each one and then centred the topper over the cake.