Finally,Cake for my own Kids

For those of you who know me, my attention span is VERY short. After doing two cakes out of butter cream, I decided to move on to bigger and better things even though my icing technique was far from perfect.  Break out the fondant (btw either pronunciation is correct - FON-dent or fon-DANT)!


My adorable 3 year old wanted Disney's Toy Story for his party, but he doesn't have a favorite character. After searching for days for a style that I wanted to try, I settled on this:

Buzz on the front

Woody on the back

Brian's cake was chocolate with peanut butter filling, SCRUMPTIOUS!!!  I iced his cake and added fondant decorations (can you tell I forgot to smooth the icing first?).  Most importantly, I learned that fondant  does not dry hard as you can see Buzz's wing falling apart after just a few minutes from the back of the cake (I will tell you all about Gum paste later).

We decided to combine my daughter and son's birthday parties for the first time, and a 6 year little girl wants nothing to do with Toy Story, for her, it was all about mermaids.  Gracie always picks some random idea for her birthdays and they are usually very difficult to find and decorate for.  She would have nothing to do with Ariel, she wanted a regular mermaid.  Here's what I came up with:

The little circles are meant to resemble the scales of a mermaid's tail.  Lesson learned for this one - don't try two brand new cakes at the same time, you (and by you, I mean I) will become bored and rush through to get the cake done.  My lack of attention span got the better of me.  I rushed out to get a mermaid Barbie to finish off the cake, fortunately Gracie thought that was the greatest thing ever.  Her cake was white cake with strawberry cream cheese filling, also SCRUMPTIOUS!