I had a client contact me about making her a Little Mermaid themed cake.  I only had a week to put this together and even though I’m not taking on many last-minute rush requests, this person was a repeat customer, is vegan!, and the project sounded super fun.  With only a week, though, I did not have time to hand make an Ariel cake topper and, truthfully, I’m not sure how realistic I could actually make her being that the request is so specific (i.e. Ariel as opposed to a mermaid).  This should explain why there is a fork (aka dinglehopper) laying in the sand.

The birthday girl happened to have several Little Mermaid character figurines that I was able to use as a cake topper.  At that point, though, the cake was all boxed up for transport and I was unable to get any photos of the finished product.  Here are a few photos that I was able to take before boxing everything up.  The cake was chocolate with chocolate buttercream.  The cupcakes were chocolate and lemon.  AND, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve been enjoying the leftover lemons for breakfast the last few mornings.