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Sadie's Sesame Street Cake (2Nd Birthday)

It was only my second attempt at fondant, my first attempt and a tiered cake and my first attempt at fondant cutouts. I asked a million questions on this site and everybody was so helpful when i was panicking about everything!. I think I like Cookie Monster and Grover the best. It took me 5 hours to make all of the characters, stripes, dots and to apply them to the cake. It wa s a huge success though and everybody at the party loved it. It's unusual to have such cakes at parties in the Netherlands so it got a really good reaction from the crowd. Thanks for looking!

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Button Down Shirt Cake

this is my first attempt at making buttercream smooth and I had a ton of things so wrong. Firstly, I didn't have a cake board and the plate I had to use was too small and the sides were upturned so it make doing the sides impossible. Secondly, I don't have all of the proper tools you need yet as this is only my second cake in two years. I have no spatula, no scraper and was missing something else. Always the optimist I made do with what I had on hand, so, the backside of a long serated knife and I used a cassette tape cover (washed) for a scraper! It got the job done and I had a good laugh about it honestly. Thirdly my buttercream took forever to crust and I had made my fondant pieces too far ahead o time so they were drying out before I got to attach them to the cake which made them crack. I didn't get to practice my Viva method because it got to be too late into the night (I was making this for my husband for Father's Day) and I had to put the fondant on so I did the best I could with what I had. I also forgot to put the little detail on the tie before I added it to the cake, so I did it once it was on already but it could have been done much nicer. Overall, I learned HEAPS with this cake and even with all the mishaps I had a blast doing it. I used a Key Lime Pie cake recipe that I found on here with Key Lime Buttercream and it was delicious!

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Mini Mouse

This was my very first mmf attempt and it was well before I found Cake Central! It was a huge mess to try and make the fondant myself (with no mixer). My entire kitchen was covered in a layer of powdered sugar. The only marshmellows I could find in the Netherlands were pink (and stale) so pink it was. I melted white chocolate and made the polka dots from that. Overall I was pretty happy with how it turned out for a 1st try and winging it.

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