"Favorite Things" B-day Cake

 The next birthday cake was for Tessa.

For some reason, likely due to the crazy cake show challenges I'd been watching, I decided to try to stack some cakes on top of each other.

This was all of Tessa's "Favorite" things at the time.

~ Splenda Cake (Chocolate)
~ Teal & Pink
~ Softball Bat
~ A can of Diet Coke

I also made some cupcakes with the left over batter and put random designs on those. 

How I decided on any of that, I don't remember. But, for my 2nd cake, I think it came out pretty well.

Tips:
1.) You can cut a cake into ANY shape you want, if you use enough tooth picks to secure it.
2.) Gravity doesn't help cakes; the Diet Coke can eventually started to lean over since the softball bat wasn't even.
3.) Sometimes the crazier a cake the better when you're not particularly good at decorating any ONE thing, if you do a bunch of smaller things, you might get away with it looking pretty complicated and awesome.
4.) Make your own icing colors!  I needed grey... so I just worked on it until I got  a good color. Left over icing became stuff for decorations!

Date: Fall of 2009