The little guy that I made this cake for is a super fan of Pablo. This was the first cake I made after I bought the Wilton fondant rolling pins. They are amazing! I am able to roll out perfectly even pieces and save on a lot of waste. I splurged with my 40% off coupon at Michael's and bought the alphabet cutters. The sour "belt" candy trim from the Bulk Barn was a big hit. I will be using that again.
For this 80th birthday I was asked to make 6" cake and 8 dozen cupcakes. I was told that the birthday girl liked flowers so that's what I went with for the decorating. I absolutely love how this cake turned out. It was a two layer 6" cookies n' cream (this time I didn't forget any ingredients!) cake. I covered it in pale blue fondant, with soft pink and white flowers. I made a large three layer rose the night before with some leaves so they would have enough time to dry out. For "80", I cut out two of each number out so I could hide the cocktail stick between the two layers. I had just enough of the soft pink ribbon to go around the bottom of the cake to finish it off. Now, for the cupcakes I did raspberry cupcake with raspberry mascarpone icing, lemon cupcake with lemon cream cheese icing, caramel cupcake with salted caramel icing topped with caramel sauce and cookies n' cream cupcake with buttercream icing. Two dozen of each went t...
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