We celebrated our daughters first birthday today. We have a ton of family so I wanted to do something big. I found a cake online just like this one... except it was butterflies. This was my first shot at a tiered cake. You can see I had to do two rows of shells around one layer... just couldn't get it perfect. But all in all I am pretty happy with the cake. It is covered with buttercream and then all of the extra pieces are chocolate clay. Enjoy!

AWESOME job! Love the colors

That's great for your first tiered cake! It's very nice.

I think your cake is adorable, I remember my first 3 tiered stacked cake, how scary yet so easy aren't? I know the feeling of making our own children's cake, keep on baking

I like it. It's very contemporary. Well-done! My first tiered cake was. . .eh. . .not meant to be a topsy turvy but in the end was?

oooohhh ... i love it!! Cool cake

That is so super duper cute! Great job.

Great job!!! I know the thick border wasn't what you planned, but it works really well on a playful design like this. I'll bet everyone was blown away. It's beautiful! I hope your daughter got to stick her finger in it.

Nice cake! Love your color combinations. What a lucky little girl to get a cake like this on her 1st birthday! Can't wait to see what her 2nd bday cake looks like!

Lea

Thanks everyone! Yes, she did "stick her fingers in it"! Ha! It is crazy how many hours we spend on cakes to let it be totally demolished

Yizzi,
That is a great cake! The colors and design are fantastic. You did great for a first tiered cake. I haven't really done a tiered cake other than the one for Wilton Course 3. I am going to have to do a stacked tiered cake for my daughter's wedding in a few months and am very nervous about it.
Bradymom

What a precious precious picture of your baby girl eating that cake!! She is a doll!!

Lea

Thank you so much!

lovely cake and what a lovely baby you have!!!!!

Congrats on both!

Awwwwwwwww That is precious!!!!!!!!!!!! The cake and your baby girl!
we just celebrated my babies 1st b-day on Jan 19th and the cake i made just fell apart! I bet you feel SOOOOOOOOOOOO relieved!!!!!!!!!!

Oh goodness! I'm sorry about your cake!! Relief... YES! I built the cake around 9 am - the party wasn't until 1. But since I had never stacked a cake before...I wanted to give myself pleanty of time. I freaked out whenever anyone walked into the kitchen or bumped the table before the party. My husband said, "Just take a picture-- so if it falls over we can put the picture on the TV for everyone to see and say, See THIS is what you could have had if you were here at 10!" What a jokester

I think your cake turned out great! Love your bows!
Your daughter is just way too cute!