I have a customer (one who is actually planning on paying me!!! ) and she wants a girly pink 3 tiered cake for her daughter's 1st b-day. She gave me the party ware to go by. I love pink and have so many ideas, but once I incorporate everything I'm thinking of I'm afraid it might start to be too tacky or pepto-bismol like. Polka Dots, Hearts, Stipes, Glitter? What ideas do you all have? I should mention that she also wants BC icing with MMF accents only, not entire MMF.

Congrats on your order! I would suggest doing the bottom tier white, with pink vertical MMF strips (like the one plate), the next layer just plain pink, and the top layer white with small pink MMF hearts around it And if you want, you could do a MMF '1' and stand it up on top of the cake!

I did a ballerina tutu first birthday cake for a little girl that's posted in my photos. It's pink and white striped on the sides kind of like the plates you posted. Maybe one tier you could do pink cake with white mmf polka dots, the next you could do striped, and then the next you could do hearts. On top you could put a big one on a stick and maybe some different sized dried hearts.

That is too funny!! I am not a big pink fan either, but I think this will be really cute!!

Yeah Amy Kay, I think that I have some sort of delay on my postings because I promise that I hadn't seen your post when I typed mine, even though the time says five minutes later. The ideas are very similar. I get excited about little girl cakes. I think they are the most fun to do!

Oh, don't worry Mine always seems to take a while to update even when I refresh the page

I agree, three tiers...bottom tier white with pink stripes in fondant, middle tier pink with lt. pink polka dots (like the napkin) top tier I would do a solid light pink and then attatch some darker pink fondant hearts onto some wires and make it really fun and whimsical with them sticking out all over......or make pink chocolate hearts on lollipop sticks and then the kids can eat those or use them as favors!

Wow! Such great ideas!! I can't wait to get started...too bad the party is 2 weeks away! Some of the ideas I had thought of, but a lot of the extra details will make this cake special. When you get all the other minds at CC working and put all the ideas together its amazing! Oh, and I got my first star under my name and my first paid cake order on the same day!!!

Here is the final sketch...what do you think?

The colors aren't exactly right, but you get the idea.

Looks awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product!

I think it looks great! I am doing a similar cake for a "fun" summer wedding where one layer has multi-colored stripes and the other polka dots. I love those more whimsical designs. I was wondering what program you did your sketch in? I usually do mine on paper but I think this would be great to be able to just easily email it without scanning.
Is it paint?

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Yes, I took one of Doug's sketches, saved it and opened it up in paint. It's a little tedious sometimes, but it helps me a lot!