Teddy Bear Birthday

I come from a huge family, where I have so many extended family scattered everywhere that I don't even know some of them. Thankfully there's Facebook, which helps me reconnect with my family members. It is thanks to Facebook where my niece Jasmine saw that I made pretty cakes, and asked if I would make a cake for her mother. All she wanted was a teddy bear figurine.

I baked a carrot cake this time around (not the best kind of cake to use when working with fondant because cream cheese melts under fondant), covered with pink fondant and topped with a teddy bear sitting in a field of many flowers. One thing to do in the near future is possibly more practice on handcrafted 3D flowers instead of using plungers to cut out the shapes, and maybe I should explore the usage of starbursts in my designs. :)
Here's my teddy bear cake today with my not-very-sophisticated-looking flowers.

My Alice in Wonderland

This weekend I created one of my most elaborate sugar works ever and I'm so crazy pleased with the results. It's like this: I've always wanted to decorate a cake like this but never had the opportunity to do so. Most people prefer cupcakes. So when CL asked if I'd bake her a cake for her baby's 1st birthday, I said yes! And when she said that she wanted an Alice (in Wonderland) for the cake topper, I was so up to the challenge.

CL's requirements was simple: orange butter cake with buttercream icing, pastel colours, and an Alice.
Here's what I came up with.

I don't mean to blow my own trumpet but I am so pleased with my details. From Alice's hair to her clothes and shoes, to Dinah the kitten. Yea, as everyone wonders why the cat has no stripes, I have to clarify that that's not the Cheshire Cat at all. If one watches the cartoon, there is a scene in the beginning where Alice plays with her kitten just before she drifts off to sleep and dreams that she's in Wonderland. So there. I do know my cartoons! :p

And this is my inspiration. Not exactly identical but (if I may just repeat again), I'm so pleased with my creation! :D I can't wait to get my next cake order!