My daughter turned 3 this past Sunday and this is her cake =D

I was so undecided for SO long on the design, going back and forth between several different ideas and didn’t finally settle on this one until probably the day I baked which was early Friday morning! She’s into Lalaloopsy, Sofia, Doc McStuffins and Minnie’s Bow-tique amongst MANY other shows so it was hard to decide on just ONE theme.

In the end, (because I just don’t got what it takes to do mashup cakes!) I decided to go with something more generic and play with a colour scheme I’ve been wanting to try for a long time. So I made this adorable “Carli” topper, the star of the cake. I had actually designed this lil girl figure for my daughter’s cake last year but because I had four Mickey friends figures to make, I ran out of time and scrapped the idea. I still have the unfinished topper sitting in my “cake room”. It was great that I was able to finally use that design idea this year instead.

What was meant to be a SIMPLE cake design to match, proved not to be the case. This cake took me more than double the time it should have because of a TON of problems that came up. I won’t bore you all with the details but one major issue is that she began to sink into her shoes hours after I put her onto the platform I’d made for her. Her shoes and the platform I guess just weren’t dry enough even though I had let them set for over 12 hours. Maybe I rushed it too much. A host of other problems later, which I managed to cover up, and this is the result…and although I’m happy with it and think it’s cute, I still have a bad taste in my mouth from having gone through the ordeal lol. Do you notice I couldn’t even cover the board? ’Cause I cut it THAT close! Guests were arriving and I was still working on bits of it…

TFL =D