So, my precious little angel turned 5 years old yesterday. Where did the time go?. Seriously. You hear this all the time, but, it really does feel like yesterday that she was just a tiny baby. I guess time flies when you are having fun and this has been the best five years ever. For her birthday we had a little party at the movie theatre, seeing Gnomeo and Juliet (a very cute movie). After the movie the kids all had cupcakes in the party room. Since my little girl is obsessed with all things Rapunzel, I made this cupcake stand for the party.
I used styrofoam as the base (this is what is referred to as a “dummy” cake), since I knew that a bunch of 5 year olds can’t eat that much. This could easily be made entirely out of cake but you would need about 25 adults to eat it. Whenever I see these cake shows on TV I can’t help but think how ridiculous they are. I am not denying that they are great ideas but the people who watch these shows don’t realize that these creations serve about 300-400 people, so that now everyone thinks that they need a super huge cake at their party of 50 people! Yikes… At almost all weddings at least 1/2 of the tiers are styrofoam. I wish they would point this out these TV shows. Anyway, enough of my ranting. This tower is covered and decorated entirely with homemade fondant. I added a few teaspoons of gum tragacanth to strengthen it. I worked on it over the course of 4 days and it was a blast to make.
Little Miss Scarlet
What a little cutie! Love the cake!
What a great idea and it looks fantastic! happy birthday to the big girl! I agree with you about those cake shows–what drives me crazy is that they are so busy ‘engineering’ them that nobody ever talks about the taste and texture.
This is a beautiful beautiful birthday cake. Love the attention to details. I am sure your little girl had a great great birthday.
This is awesome. I love the way you did her hair. I made a similar cake for my daughter’s fifth birthday last year.