Pink and Purple Girly Cake

One of my Young Women (at church) have a birthday this week, so she came over to my house and we made a cake for her together over the last couple of days.

She learned some new skills and we had a great time working together!

I love the silk-like finish of painting a cake with cluster dust!

This is how it looked before it got covered up with all the pink. I will definitely be using this technique again, so pretty.

Aimee LOVES pink, so we had to cram as much pink on the cake as we possibly could. I think we got the final cake pretty close to the design too.

The cake is chocolate (8" bottom, 6" top), filled with chocolate buttercream and coated with chocolate ganache before being covered in fondant and decorated.

Aimee aslo loves my Gingerbread Cookies, so she made a big batch, under my supervision, with a healthy helping of royal icing on top!

Didn't she do a great job on those cookies?

Vintage Pink Bunting Cake

We had a wonderful week, with family from overseas visiting for a late Christmas Celebration. They were only with us for a few short days, so we packed in as much as we could in that time. My daughter especially loved spending time with her cousin who is the same age - the two girls were inseparable!

We spent a whole day being tourists in London and even managed to fit in a West-End show, any guesses what we saw?

In the middle of all the excitement, I also had a cake order to fill. Luckily it was quite a simple fondant free cake (I am slowly building up my buttercream skills), along with a dozen cupcakes.

We were asked to use shades of pink and gold, so the cake itself was 4 layers of vanilla pound cake in ombre pinks filled and decorated with vanilla buttercream. I made the bunting with card, cut on my Silhouette Cameo, and butchers twine, hanging from paper straws.

The cupcakes were rich chocolate, decorated with the same vanilla buttercream. Cake and cupcakes were sprinkled with sparkly gold gelatine flakes.