Today I had another cake order. I don’t do many of these because I have a ridiculously tiny kitchen and I end up taking up the whole thing when I do a cake. This means everyone had better not want anything from the kitchen until I am done.
I started this cake last night and was really excited to see it coming together. It was for a 12 year old girls birthday and I was told she did not want anything classic or cutesy, but something with lots of colors and shapes.
I started with the candles. They were the most fun to make, large pretzel sticks cut in half and dipped in white chocolate. I rolled out yellow starburst candies to cut the flames, then attached them with more melted chocolate. The effect was that it looked like melted candle wax dripping down the candle. I made a batch of marshmallow fondant to cover the cake and Alyssa helped me cut stripes and polka dots to decorate the candles.
I had enough cake batter left to make a cupcake that I wrapped in fondant for the cake top. Once the cake was all assembled I attached the candles with more melted chocolate, and sprinkled chocolate shavings as confetti all over the cake.
I was pretty happy with the way it all turned out, and I hope that sweet girl had a great birthday party. Even though it took a lot of time, and caused my kitchen to explode, I loved making this cake.
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