Twice within a month I made these two cakes for different birthday girls. The sheet cake, in each case, was traditional buttercream frosting with grass piped on the bottom half and the sun and clouds piped in the sky. On the first cake I did, I piped the caterpillars out of different colored frosting - on this one, I chose brightly colored jelly beans to make them out of. I'm really thinking I like them better this way.
Not having a miniature ball pan, I improvised when making the lady bug 'smash' cake for the birthday girls. I baked them in a glass mixing bowl, frosted them and put them on the board surrounded by buttercream grass. The heads were made from black buttercream fondant on each cake - as was the stripe down the center of the back. On one cake I piped frosting spots, on another I cut circles from the black fondant...I'll definitely stick to this method in the future because it makes the cake look more 'finished,' I think.
I'm really hoping that these are just the first of numerous first birthday cakes that I'll get to make - it's a lot of fun to be such a big part of a baby's milestone first birthday.
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