Tinkerbell

This past weekend I made two Tinkerbell themed cakes for a birthday party.

Why two? Well, they were not too sure how many people were going to be there, so they wanted one chocolate and one white cake.

Here is the chocolate one.



Tink is sitting on a "stump" made with two 6" rounds, and frosted with dark chocolate buttercream (my first time making chocolate buttercream!). The "stump" sits on a chocolate cake frosted in a thin layer of the chocolate buttercream, and then covered over with regular buttercream. I piped in the "grass" using a Wilton's grass tip. The flowers and the embellishments are made out of colored fondant with a little bit of Gum-Tex mixed in to make them a bit stiffer.

I got the idea for this one surfing the web, and found several good ideas on this site which is an excellent resource for ideas.

Here is a detail shot of the toadstools and flowers.



This is the white cake. Originally supposed to be a "topsy turvy" cake, but you saw how well that turned out. It was sort of topsy turvy because I offset the top tier a bit.

There was nothing specifically "Tinkerbell" about this cake, just the colors and the flowers. I did stick some fairy wand party favors I found in the top, but I think that they are hard to see in the pictures.

Detail of the top. It's a lot busier and unorganized than I wanted, but I did not plan ahead too well. I'm total rubbish at making fondant bows, so it sort of ended up being a bit of a jumble.

Here is a shot of the two cakes together.

I regret that I forgot to properly finish and cover the cake board the chocolate cake is sitting on. Other than that I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out.