Cowboy Birthday Cake for James's 80th

This was a big one! Delivered to Orono Town Hall on a very snowy day. The horseshoes and JAMES I cut out of some gold stock paper on my Cricut machine. James's wife Vicki had already purchased the other cake toppers, so I added them when I got to the hall. I dyed chocolate icing black to add the border and some decoration to go with the theme of black and gold. I finally learned that it was much easier to dye chocolate icing black than vanilla buttercream!

The cake was made up of 2 9 x 13 cakes. One vanilla with chocolate ganache filling and one chocolate with vanilla pudding filling. Covered in vanilla buttercream.

In addition to the cake I made two dozen vegan chocolate cupcakes, half with vanilla icing and half with chocolate. Both vegan icings.

Dessert table all ready!

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