The cake always turns out pretty good, but man does it ever start poorly! This year was no better. Didn't start until 9:00 on Friday night and I was already way tired. The cake shapes didn't quite bake like I thought they would, therefore making it difficult to achieve the mushroom shape for the top of the fairy house. Brian and I were fighting off the giggles as we decided to cut the cake to help with the shape. Once that was done, realized it was a mistake and of course now the cake is cut and unfixable. Brian was also having trouble with his crepe paper flowers so things were not starting off well! Anyway here is 1/2 of the cake and as you can see it doesn't resemble a mushroom top.
I already had started frosting it before we got the photo taken, but you can kind of see the end result of the cake shapes. The white part is the base of the house.
Somehow miraculously, it ends up resembling a fairy house, accomplished by filling in lots of voids with frosting.
I used the star decorating tip to make the circles on the roof and a ribbon tip to decorate the doors and windows. I also used a bigger ribbon tip to make the 'grass'. Boy was my hand tired after piping the frosting onto the entire plate!
The sidewalk was candy discs and as usual I always end up adding more frosting, I couldn't resist adding the little white flowers to the grass. Additionally on sat morning (didn't take any more photos), I added little yellow dots to the center of these flowers and the ones on the roof.
The fairies are made out of fondant with a gold ribbon tied around their waist to make the wings. I know they kinda look like mermaids, but they really are supposed to be fairies!
Taylor loved it and I was happy with the final product. Usually am, it's just the process to get there never seems easy! Next up is a baby shower cake this month or next!
I already had started frosting it before we got the photo taken, but you can kind of see the end result of the cake shapes. The white part is the base of the house.
Somehow miraculously, it ends up resembling a fairy house, accomplished by filling in lots of voids with frosting.
I used the star decorating tip to make the circles on the roof and a ribbon tip to decorate the doors and windows. I also used a bigger ribbon tip to make the 'grass'. Boy was my hand tired after piping the frosting onto the entire plate!
The sidewalk was candy discs and as usual I always end up adding more frosting, I couldn't resist adding the little white flowers to the grass. Additionally on sat morning (didn't take any more photos), I added little yellow dots to the center of these flowers and the ones on the roof.
The fairies are made out of fondant with a gold ribbon tied around their waist to make the wings. I know they kinda look like mermaids, but they really are supposed to be fairies!
Taylor loved it and I was happy with the final product. Usually am, it's just the process to get there never seems easy! Next up is a baby shower cake this month or next!
