After my first attempt, I was itching to get started on another cake. I thought I would scale this one down a bit - and practice a few new techniques, focusing on creating a clean, fun cake. This cake was only 1 tier (3 cakes of the same size stacked). I think I actually had a harder time with this one than with my first 3 tiered cake.
The original plan was a hat box present with the lid partially open and tissue paper peeping out - i.e. 4 cakes, but I ruined the last cake I baked when taking it out of the pan. So, I had to edit my cake a bit and decided to ditch the open lid idea and instead place "tissue paper" around the base of the cake.
The fondant was testing me this time. The texture was a bit off. Seemed dry, yet was sticky - it didn't make a lick of sense... but I was hoping with everything I was putting on the cake, I could disguise that. Also, covering a tall, skinny, round cake was much more difficult than I anticipated. Oh well, I'm learning along the way.
Everything on the cake is edible - but not sure I would be so brave (ha ha ha).
If I were to do this all over again, of course there are a lot of things I would change. At any rate, it is fun to practice and learn from my mistakes.
It's a good thing there are several birthdays in September in my family... Many birthday cakes for practicing with ;)
xoxo,
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