The cakes are complete!


Wowzers...that was a lot of work...and really, not so totally pleased with the outcome. :/
They look okay, but when I look at them I see about a bazillion mistakes I made.
In addition to the mistakes, the castle cake is EXTREMELY fragile! Like, touch it and something falls off and breaks. :( Very frustrating. I was reading up on the Wilton website though and apparently I am not the only one complaining about this. So I guess that part is not necessarily due to my construction, but due to poorly constructed pieces for the cake. Ugh..

The good thing is, there are a few things that more experienced folks have come up with that I can do to make it more stable should I ever make this cake again. So yea for that!

It will be kinda funny to see how the smash cake (barbie cake) works out for Addison. I purposely did not mound the icing on her dress and just made it very minimal in the hopes that she will consume a little less sugar during her first cake experience. As a result though, I am not real sure she will really get to "play" in the icing. haha.

Well, okay...enough talk...here are a few pics of the finished cakes - flaws and all.



The princess and her castle. :) For our princess in her castle on her FIRST Birthday!

Comments

Cari said…
The cakes were awesome! You did an amazing job! Thanks for inviting us, we had a wonderful time! XO!
July 26, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Diana said…
ummmm - those cakes are freaking amazing! Impressive...:)
July 27, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Sharee Forman said…
amazing is all I have to say. Your new nickname is now the Cake Diva miss dayna!! Very impressive! :)
July 27, 2008 at 3:31 PM
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