Clare's Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Making Clare's birthday cakes are so much fun for me!  Her mom, my good friend Kristie, always comes up with fun themes for the celebration.  The first cake I made for Clare was the My Little Pony Cake.  (By the way, this is my most popular cake...it gets like 200+ hits a day!)

Last year, Kristie requested a My Little Mermaid cake...  I had a lot of fun with this topsy-turvy cake. 

So this year, when she requested a Strawberry Shortcake cake, I was super excited!  This is a strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese filling.  I topped it with fondant and a cute little Strawberry Shortcake doll set that I thought was absoutely perfect for the occasion. 

I hope Clare has a fabulous birthday celebration!  (And I hope she loves strawberries!!!)



A "Moo, Moo" here and an "Oink, Oink" there...

Little Miss Ali celebrated her 2nd birthday today and I'm so excited that her mom asked me to make her cake again.  (I made a "Garden Party" cake for her last year and was honored then, too!)  This year, Ali was having a Barnyard-Themed birthday.  Her mom, Mari, gave me full creative power with the cake.  All I knew was Ali's favorite farm animal was a cow and I went from there. 

I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cute if I made a cake that looked like a pig on top of a cow?  And there was the inspiration for this cake.  I think it turned out SO cute!

The inspiration for the cake flavors was the exterior.  My inspiration cow was black and white and my inspiration pig was pink.  I went from there.

The bottom layer of cake was chocolate cake with vanilla and Oreo buttercream and delicious layer of chocolate fudge in the middle!  (This has to be my favorite cake of all time.  No kidding.)

The top layer was a strawberry cake with strawberry cream cheese frosting.  There was a pound of strawberries in that there cake.  And it was scrumptious!

Here's Ali posing with her cake.  LOVE this!

"Happy BIRTHday, dear, Ali!  Happy Birthday to you!"

I hope she made a wish!

My wish is that she has a fantastic 3rd year!  Thanks for including me in your birthday, Ali!