Happy cakes

Over the weekend I wanted to do some more practice working with fondant. In particular I wanted to try my hand at covering a whole cake. Now it hardly seemed worth it to make a big cake, so I made a little one that would (if it didn't look ridiculous) become a gift for a friend.

I was really quite happy with how it turned out. Sure it's not flat and doesn't have that same neat finish that you see from 'real' cakes that are decorated by people with talent. But, it looks like I wanted it to, and that's the first step.

Because I had cake mix left over from my mini cake I figured I would use the fondant, and my baby free time (he was sleeping beautifully... sleeping like a...well, baby actually) and decorate the cupcakes as well. It was fun playing with such bright colours!

But of course, it wasn't enough, so I made up some iced sugar cookies to finish out the trio. The neon pinbk and orange were so much fun. I am glad, because hot pink and orange are shaping up to be the colours for my Pink Ribbon day function!