Cake, Cake and More Cakes

For the past two weeks I have been on a cake making binge.  I was hired to make cupcakes and a smash cake for my friend's little girl on her first birthday.  I had a hard time deciding what to do at first but after I finally came up with a plan I decided I needed to try a few things out before the big day.  Luckily, I have two friends that share a birthday and so I offered to make cakes for them.  I didn't think that we needed more cake around the house yet, R2-D2 was still being finished off. 

This one didn't turn out as planned but I still think it is cute.

I have wanted to try a pink ribbon cake ever since I saw one on a blog. 

I was glad to finally have a reason to try it out.  I will definitely use this technique again.

I love it so much I thought it deserved a second look.

I also made some mini-cupcakes for the teachers at Guss's school for a meal that the PTG provides on the night of Parent Teacher Conference but I didn't take any pictures.  That same day I also decided to make some cupcakes for a Breaking Dawn pre-party.  The cupcakes turned out great and the party was a lot of fun.

Thanks to Hello Cupcake for the directions to these scary werewolves.

Finally, after two practice cakes and some cupcakes I finally got around to the cake that started it all.  I decided on neopolitan for the flavor because the pink, brown and white are a great color palette for a 1 year old little girl.  I had made butterfly cupcakes for Chloe's 3rd birthday and decided that they would be great again.  I am really happy with the way it turned out and so was my friend.