April Flowers

Addie's April Flowers

This window box cake was made for a sweet little girl named Addie.  She had a beautiful third birthday party on a rare sunny morning at our neighborhood park.  This cake was made for alot of people but, of course, there were still leftovers!  My biggest challenge on this one was too many helpers.  I couldn't do without them but there are times, like putting on the last touches that it would have been nice if I had sent them all to the park too!  My youngest loves watching me but eventually can't stand that I am giving all my devoted Mommy attention to someone else's cake! 

This was a yellow cake with strawberry mousse filling and a buttercream frosting under my very own homemade fondant.  I used flower molds to make the white chocolate lollipop flowers. 

My little birthday girl seemed happy with her cake but was already looking droopy at her party and fell asleep before the cake was cut.  I was so sorry to hear she spent her birthday weekend sick in bed.  Hope you are feeling better Addie!

Easter Hat

Lilies and Roses and Daisies...oh, my!

The Pacific Northwest had it's first sunny morning here after a gloomy, wet 45 days.  The light streaming through my clean windows inspired the soft, happy colors of my second Wilton class cake final.  My flowers did not make it to class but I didn't think it was a big deal until I came home to place them on the cake by myself.  It was lot harder than I thought it would be to get the look I wanted without the benefit of my instructor's experience.


Can you find the hand painted blue butterfly?

Maddie couldn't resist trying it on for size!

All of the spring flowers and the bow were made of a mixture of fondant and gumpaste.  I tinted the pale rose petals with pink luster dust and covered the centers of the pink daisies and lilies with yellow sugar.  I am grateful to Doug for taking the best pictures he could but I was happier with realistic quality of the fragile flowers more than his camera phone captures.  White almond sour cream cake with raspberry filling was hidden underneath the fondant straw hat.  Happy Easter!