Castle Cake

Well, for Josh's 8th birthday we did a "Knight" party. You can read all the details on my other blog if you want to know but for here, this is the cake he just knew I could make! I stayed up until 1:00 AM putting those jelly beans on the "turrets!" I don't have a square cake pan so my layers were a wee bit wonky. At some point I hope to get square pans but for now I had to cut apart a 9x13 cake and it just didn't come out very crisp!

Josh didn't even notice. He thought it was great. Later I put the little red "flags" on those naked toothpicks you see on the turrets. I just didn't think to take another picture of it after I did that. :)

Tinkerbell!

This is the birthday cake I made for Gracie's birthday. She wanted white cake with strawberries so I did strawberry moistening syrup, a layer of buttercream and sliced strawberries on the first and third layers. And I did buttercream with a vanilla meringue disk in the center layer on each cake. They were frosted with vanilla buttercream and decorated along the lines of a cake in a book that she saw. We just changed the colors a little bit. She loved it. :)