I had two cake orders this week– one for a baby shower and one for a birthday.  One I was pleased with; the other, not so much.  You’ll see what I mean.

The birthday cake was for Matt’s cousin’s coworker who loves her cats and France.  I was asked to incorporate both into one cake.  I had grand ideas for this cake, but none of them worked out.

So this picture compilation is the worst quality, but the left shows you the birthday girls’ cats and the right shows the cats that I made for the cake.  I’m pretty impressed with the cats since they look pretty close to the pet cats.

I’m impressed with how the French flag turned out.  It looks pretty realistic.

And here is the cake.  It’s lemon cake with lemon buttercream and a layer of blackberry jam.  I’m sure it tastes great, but it looks like a whole lotta ideas thrown up all over the cake with no rhyme or reason.  One thing I wanted to do was to make a 3D Eiffel tower out of gum paste, but it didn’t work out.  So I had to settle for a 1D Eiffel Tower with royal icing detail piped on.  It didn’t turn out bad, but it was bigger than I had wanted it to be and I didn’t have any way of putting it on top of the cake, which is where I had originally wanted it.

I also wanted to stamp on cat tracks, but they didn’t really turn out that great.

Aargh!  This one definitely won’t go on Facebook. 

Now, let’s get to the cake that I’m kinda proud of, which is Facebook-worthy.  It’s for a baby shower:

The baby shower was yesterday (Thursday) and I was only asked to do it on Monday or Tuesday.  If I would have had more time, I think I probably could have come up with something a little more than flowers, but I still think it turned out pretty.