Today we celebrated another one of Kingston's swimming buddies' 1st Birthday!  The theme of the party was an Underwater Adventure.  Like the Sheep cake, we kept the cake artificial dye-free.  Hunter's mom wanted a lot of different texture in the design and I think we successfully accomplished this with the wave texture on top, all the different fondant corals along the side, and the golden sugar sand!  This cake had alternating Vanilla and Chocolate cake with Cookies & Cream buttercream. Happy 1st Birthday Hunter!

Kingston met a bunch of little friends during our diaper fit classes.  We like to call them his swimming buddies!  This sheep cake was made for one them celebrating her 1st birthday.  Since babies can have a tendency to react to artificial dyes, natural colourants were used instead.  The coconut "grass" was dyed with chlorophyll drops, the flowers and bow were dyed with beet powder, and the sheep's head was dyed with black cocoa powder.  The bottom tier had alternating Vanilla and Chocolate cake with Blueberry buttercream while the sheep was Vanilla cake with Blueberry buttercream. Happy 1st Birthday Evelyn!

Emojis are everywhere these days.  I see dolls, shirts, pillows ... there's even a movie coming out soon.  So I was not surprised when I was asked to make an emoji cake!  This cake was a Chocolate Chunk cake with Vanilla Buttercream. Happy 8th Birthday Bella!

One of my favourite books as a child was The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.  I think what I loved most was the beautiful water colour illustrations.  So when I was asked to make a Peter Rabbit themed birthday cake for a little girl's birthday, I was delighted to say the least!  The Peter Rabbit figurine topper was sculpted from modelling chocolate while all other decorations were made from fondant.  The top tier of the cake was a Chocolate Cake and the bottom tier was a Vanilla Bean Cake.  Both tiers were iced with a Classic Vanilla Buttercream. Happy Birthday Alexa!