Baby Cakes!

We had two cakes to do this weekend. Each cake was completely different and required a bit of creativity. The first cake was for a friend of our friend Kellie. They first wanted a Spongebob cake, but the son changed his mind/interests to John Deere. I asked the mother for some toys and was able to use those to embellish a farm themed cake. Have a look:

I thought the farm animal toys really made the cake look realistic.


Here is an arial view of the cake. They said the child who the cake was for could not stop staring at the cows drinking out of the pond.


I used cake crumbs to fill the beds of the trailers being hauled by the John Deere tractor.


The other cake was for our good friends Sheila and Glenn's daughter's first birthday. The said they wanted a monkey cake, with that being the only input my creativity/mind started to flow. Here is a sketch of the concept I came up with.


I have never baked a cake larger than an 8 inch so it was different baking a 12 inch cake. It took a bit longer and was heavy! Here is the cake covered with baby pink buttercream.


A two layer second tier of chocolate cake and chocolate buttercream was added on top of the bottom tier.


I added a small piped simple border.


We had to carve out a space in the cake for the monkey to rest in. I got a bit nervous while constructing this cake, but it started to come together really well. I used a chopstick to add claw marks to the cake where the monkey was digging in and my mom helped make gumpaste and fondant details.


They asked for a banana shaped smash cake for the baby so I gave that task to my mom. She did a wonderful job and the baby loved it too!


We also added some flowers and feathered them with a brush.


Both families loved the cakes and it was wonderful to take part in making two different birthdays special.