Today was the first birthday party for my baby girl, Eisley, and this is her birthday cake! It was Alice in Wonderland themed, so I went with a simplistic "Queen of Hearts" thing for the cake. The three tiers are covered in marshmallow fondant. It was my first time working with MMF, and I love it. Once you get used to how it works, it's SO easy! 
Our final cake involved learning carnations. I've never been a fan of the actual flower but I loved making the gumpaste versions. I think they're actually quite pretty!
I also did a fondant bead border. Now that I've finished the courses, I'm really excited to start getting down and dirty with cake making. I'm excited to experiment and learn more.
And today I worked on my own birthday cake. It's square...
Yellow cake with chocolate buttercream made from scratch. This was my first time making my own chocolate buttercream. It was a little harder to smooth, but worked out okay.
After doing borders {which typically I'd do last, yes, but this time I didn't. So sue me.}
I used my fun new imprint tools from Wilton.
My writing needs work, but I was okay with how it turned out.
I added an exclamation point later for added excitement. Ooh.
And this, folks, is a cake I made for my family's Father's Day Celebration. Husband dropped one of the layers taking it out of the oven so it collapsed a little, which made the cake unstable, but I got it together okay. It's just lopsided...
This cake is devil's food chocolate with buttercream frosting and a little caramel in the center. Yum! The decorating turned out okay. Taste is what counts, right?
At the top are three royal icing hearts leaning against each other to make a cake topper.
My borders are really good, yes?
So there you have it, my first ever tiered cake.
Here is the cake we made today in class. We had leeway to do whatever colors, daisy arranging we chose. I really am enjoying fondant more and more. It's a lot of fun to play with.
Marble cake base, streamers, daisies... woohoo.
Today's cake we learned draping techniques, marbleizing...
A fantasy flower. I sorta think it looks like a peony, my favorite!
So there you have it!
I don't really get fondant. As cool as it is on a cake {although I've always preferred the look of a nice fluffy frosting myself} it tastes like it has paint thinner in it...
You have to saw through the fondant to cut it...
Most people just peel it off instead of eating it with the cake {isn't that just a waste?)...
Because most people don't like to have to chew their frosting that thoroughly.
But, like I said it was a lot of fun, and really good to learn.
We also learned daffodils, pansies, apple blossoms, mums, primroses, violets, violet leaves, daisies, and bachelor buttons.
For a 3D effect on our cake, we made color flow pieces. Butterfly wings and fences!
Iced cake, basket weave on the sides. Rope border on the top, swirl border on bottom. Then we added a buttercream lily of the valley.
And after adding my color flow pieces and royal icing flowers -here's the finished cake!
On to Course 3!
Today I did my very first basketweave cake! The top is sorta meh, but I was happy enough with the basketweave and rope borders. 
Had some trouble with the word "Easter". Did drop flowers. Interesting colors, are they not?
It wasn't a *perfect* basketweave, but it was pretty good for my first try. My wrist hurt so bad by the time I was done piping...
Happy Easter!
