Pink Princess Cake with Shooting Stars

This weeks cake was inspired by one my friend had seen and described to me. 

It's a very glittery pink princess cake! Yay! :) 

I started by making all the fun little details that would make this cake special.

Using gum paste (with very little 'Deep Pink' coloring) I made numerous pink daisies. I let them dry in small plastic spoons to give them a nice curve in the middle, as well as a few petals moving different directions to give them.a more natural look.

When they were dry, I dusted them with pearl dust and added a small gumpaste flower center (which was also dusted with pearl dust) 

Using the same pink gum paste, I made a pink bow for the front of the cake. 

Placing rolled-up paper towels into the centers of the bow loops helps it stay in shape and not collapse on itself while it's drying. 

After it was dry, I dusted it with hot pink disco dust. Absolutely Fabulous! Haha! :)

Because this cake was a 2nd b-day cake, and would be eaten by many toddlers, I decided to use lollipop sticks instead of wire to hold up my stars. I used white gum paste and cut out stars, placed one on each side of the stick and 'glued' them together with water. Then once they dried I dusted them with white pearl dust to give them a nice shimmery star look. 

 

Besides the pearls, name banner and letters, I was ready for the cake assembling to start. 

I baked a vanilla bean cake with real Madagascar Vanilla Beans (yummmm!!!) 

Banana cream filling (with a pink frosting barrier)

After everything was stacked and frosted it was time to start putting everything together. 

I used fondant to make the banner, letters, and pearls (dusting them all with white pearl dust). I added pearls to the top, bottom, and the places where the piping touches in the middle. I stuck all the flowers down with a little extra buttercream, and dusted the whole cake with the disco dust so it shimmered. 

I also added a silver and pink tiara, as well as a little wand on the front next to the bow. 

And to finish it off....the stars!!! I added 5 stars, all a little off center from each other.

I absolutely love how this cake came out!!! Super cute and girly! <3 always thankful for all these different, fun cake projects!

Little Mermaid Cake

It was my daughter's 8th birthday a few weeks ago, and with 'The Little Mermaid' being released on BluRay - that HAD to be the theme. 

I found a Wilton shaped pan that was Ariel's head, so that made the designing part easy. 

I used red velvet cake for this recipe because that's my daughter's favorite. 

She wanted a sandy beach around the base of the cake, with candy melt seashells. 

I used yellow, dark pink, and navy blue candy melts to create many varieties of sea shells. I knocked them out of their mold, cleaned them up, and dusted them with a white pearl dust to make them look pretty. 

I used light brown sugar to make the sandy beach around the bottom of the cake. As well as an 'island' at the top of the cake board to hold the candle. 

I piped the face, body, etc. according to the Wilton instructions that came with the cake pan.  

I used a combo of blue and white frosting in the same piping bag (w/o a tip, only using a coupler) to create a ocean/wave effect. It was SUPER easy, and looked great! 

Ta-da! The final product! :) needless to say my daughter absolutely loved it! <3