Ladybird Birthday Cake

This ladybird princess cake was made by me some time ago for my granddaughter's birthday, at her request.

I used the ladybird cake from one of Debbie Brown's novelty cake books, and just added a crown.

She loved it!

This year, my granddaughter asked very sweetly if I would make her a princess and a frog cake - how could I refuse.  I guess I'll be getting out my Debbie Brown books again.

Happy Birthday Noah - One Today

Today my grandson, Noah, was one year old!  Where does the time go?  It seems only yesterday that he was just a babe in arms, and now he's all but walking.  We had a small gathering at my house for him today, and my youngest daughter, Katherine, and I made him a cake... what else, but Noah's Ark.

We found instructions in one of Debbie Brown's cake books.  It took us about 7.5 hours in total.Quite a marathon really, but it didn't turn out too badly.  All the decoration is made of fondant icing -  almost 4lbs of it.