Babies First Butterfly Cake

It has been a while, but I had a lot of fun learning with this one.  A friend of mine asked me to make a cake for her daughter's 1st birthday.  She had 3 words; Pink, Flowers, and Butterflies.  So this is what I came up with

 That caked had pearl dust EVERYWHERE!  I love it.  The butterflies, while a pain, were really fun.  I drew butterfly wings on some parchment paper, taped it to the counter, then outlined multiple wings on wax paper with some thinned out royal icing.

I didn't really like the cake after I had iced it.  I was exhausted and delirious so it didn't turn out as smooth as I had hoped.  When I put all of the decorations on it (Pearl strings, flowers and butterflies) the next day, it really came together.  It turned out to be such a cute cake

 So every baby in my family, (and I assume a lot of peoples families) when they turn 1, gets to sit in front of a cake and take the first bites...or fist fulls of cake.  I don't know where this tradition started, but I like it.

This is the first time I have heard of having a whole photo shoot for this "Cake Smash".  and I must say, I like the idea.  I mean look at how cute the pictures turned out!

They were taken by Stolen Hearts Photography whose Facebook page you can find Here.  I have been able to look at some of her stuff and I like it.  I mean, look at these cute pictures.

 Of course the baby is quite adorable too.  I was told that she loved the cake.  Went strait for the butterflies.

I absolutely love this picture!