Epic Cake

This year Becky actually took a day off to bake and decorate Ally’s birthday cake. For weeks Ally has been working on a drawing of the cake. Then she hit a wall for the top tier. Yes tier – she wanted 3 tiers this year for her Hawaii themed cake.

Last weekend Becky did a couple renderings of her thoughts, based on what she thought she could actually create, and I purchased a few cake decorating accents to put on the cake so we wouldn’t be trying to mold chairs out of edible modeling paste and making surfboards out of fondant.

I am thrilled to say the cake came out AMAZING. Becky did a fantastic job and Ally was thrilled.

On the left is Ally’s drawing and then on the right Becky’s ideas. Below is the baker, her daughter and the finished cake!

a 3 tiered caked with a waterfall (lined with Whoppers for boulders), bottom later the ocean with dolphins and turtles swimming in it, since we snorkeled with both of these creatures. The middle layer has the waterfall running from the top lush green tier. But the middle layer is the beach, with gold sprinkles for sand and plastic miniature surfboards as decorations. The top tier, which we have saved to celebrate with as a family on Ally’s actual birthday on Monday, is a green lush mountain with a beach on top complete with palm trees and a beach chair.  The mountain also has candy purple hibiscus flowers on it.

 

A look back thru the years of Ally’s birthday cakes.

8 Years old – Penguins   7 Years old was a weather party so the cake was a rainbow and rain.

6 years old flowers   5 years old fish cupcakes

4 Years old was an Olivia party so we made red and white cupcakes. Then at 3 Years old it was  Pinkalicous party theme so there were pink cupcakes with pink frosting.

2 years old were the famous animal cupcakes, and then on her very first birthday it was a simple cupcake. Which she did not even eat.

 

Ally is pretty standard in her requests – she wants yellow cake with buttercream frosting. It was a lot of cake this year, 2 10” + 2 8” + 2 6” tiers of cake and Becky used 4+ pounds of confectioner’s sugar on the frosting.