Flower Cake

I was asked to make a cake for a 50th anniversary celebration...50 years!  What an honor to make a cake for such an event!  This cake was a blast to make because it was only for 10 people, so the bottom is 8 inches and the top is a little 6 incher!    Its a vanilla cake with apricot filling and swiss meringue buttercream frosting.  Yum.  I was told that the flower for the 50th anniversary is the violet and the color is gold.  SO I made little fondant violets and put them all over the cake like they were spilling over from the top.  I also put a gold ribbon around the bottom of each tier.  I really enjoyed making the cake!

There it is!

Jungle Cake!

A friend of mind had a baby shower today and I was asked to make this cake!  A jungle themed cake to welcome little Evan Robert into the world!  I had so much fun making this cake.  It was the most fondant work I've done on my own and I just had a blast.  I didn't get a picture of the inside of the cake but when you cut into it, each tier is cut into three layers and the frosting between the layers was colored too.  One yellow and one green, and chocolate cake.  This made it not so hard to take apart and cut into after all my hard work, because I knew the inside was pretty too (and delicious, if I do say so myself).  So I took a bunch of pictures so you could see all of the elements and details.  Here they are, and congratulations, Cassie!

The CAKE!

 The BACK of the cake

The TOP of the cake, snake and all

 Mr. Giraffe

Monkey!

They call him the King of the Jungle.

The elephant is my favorite.

The tree on the back of the cake.

And the whole thing one more time...just for fun.

Isn't it fun!?!?