Happy Birthday Dena!

Happy Birthday to my good friend Dena over at Pancho and Leftey! She turned 21 today! 21 on the 21st, so cool right? 

Everyone be sure to go tell her Happy Birthday and remember to follow their blog!

Birthday CAKE!!!!

Hey yall! Some of you may have read my post last week talking about some ideas I had for my grandmother's 88th Birthday!!! I promised I would post some pictures of the final product after it was done, so here they are! :) I think the cake was a huge hit. Everyone at the party kept telling me how much of a talent I had, they thought that going to culinary school was a great idea. This made me feel a lot better (everyone likes to have their ego stroked once in a while ;) I decided to do a neapolitan center, and I really wish I would have taken a picture of it once I cut it because that was actually my favorite part!

Gumpaste Roses -I dusted them with some white pearl dust

Homemade buttercream IS my favorite part of the cake!!!

Just covered the cake with fondant!

Adding the gumpaste flowers.

The finished product! :)

Ready to get cut up and the restaurant.

I had a couple snags along the way, but all in all I was pretty happy with the cake as a whole! :) But the best part was knowing that my grandmother was so happy with it! The next day she even asked me for a picture of it to send to her friends. :)