A Story (or two) Behind this Cake!

I was asked to make a baby shower for a Children's Literature theme baby shower...they asked that I include The Cat in the Hat, Curious George, Peter Rabbit and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.  I launched a Google image search for all those characters and thumbed through my twin boys book collection and was instantly transported back to my own childhood!! I took iconic images from each story as my inspiration and used those to come up with this cake.

Each main character was hand-sculpted out of fondant and each scene that they are placed in was handpainted onto the cake behind them...I really can't decide which one is my favorite! They were all fun to make!!

The top and bottom tiers of the cake were devils food cake with white chocolate mousse filling and white chocolate buttercream frosting.  The middle tier was yellow cake with chocolate ganache filling and frosting.
YUM!!!

Curious George takes the cake!

Hi everyone!  Two weeks ago, I was asked to make this Curious George cake for a 1st birthday party - and what a party it was!! I heard Curious George himself showed up to the festivities! The mom and dad of the birthday boy threw an amazing party for him, complete with homemade monkey cupcakes, chocolate covered bananas and pretzels, seating cards in the shape of bananas hung from adorable little palm trees! I am going to this mom to plan my kids next birthday party!! :)

The cake was 2 tiers - the bottom was vanilla cake, nutella filling and vanilla frosting and the top was chocolate cake, nutella filling and vanilla frosting.  All decorations were handcrafted with fondant and gumpaste.