Arielle's Birthday Cake

Arielle wanted a big extravagent cake with basket weave and flowers so this is what I came up with. It's vanilla cake with strawberries, buttercream and vanilla moistening syrup on the first and third layer of each cake. The center layers have a vanilla meringue disk and sliced strawberries. Those disks are why it looks a little bit wonky. I tried spreading the meringue out with a spatula and didn't get even layers. The next time I tried it (different cake) I piped it and they came out perfect. Live and learn!

I did get creative with this one because she wanted a three tiered cake but we weren't having 150 people over! I used smaller pans than normal but to get the top tier a small enough size and make it look okay I used very clean tuna fish cans!!

First Roses and Basket Weave

I missed the class that covered roses so I decided to try them on my own. I thought they turned out okay for a first attempt! The basket weave didn't come out too badly either considering I just followed the instructions in the book.

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. :)