Decorating Leah's Cake

More cakes!

When Cathy decorates a cake, most of the time I only get to see the final product. One lazy Saturday morning though, I was able to watch most of the decorating process and also test out my new bounce flash to boot. Get ready for lots of cake pictures.


Cathy was asked to make a cake for her cousin's (Christine) daughter's (Leah) second birthday. Cathy decided on a two-tier "basket of flowers." Here it is after the basket weave. Yeah I didn't really take too many photos of the basket weave process because I was too busy watching. Putting that weave on is a painstaking and time-consuming process, but the results are impressive.


A lot of time was spent spinning flowers...


And installing them too.


Adding leaves, besides contributing some contrasting color, is always a nice detail. The orange and pink flowers were per Christine's request. I think the "basket of flowers" look was achieved pretty well.


Detail.


Lots of Play-Dohesque frosting was made. Making frosting isn't easy. Not only does Cathy make the actual frosting herself, she mixes the colors herself using just a few primary colors. This time I was able to help by doing some of the actual mixing. By the way, getting the colors right is difficult. When you sit there mixing and folding the frosting, watching it slowly change color, it just burns your eyes out. At some point I couldn't tell if it was getting too orange, or too green, or if the orange was actually pink or red, or whatever.


The dreaded writing. It's tough.


Yes, yes, it says "Happy Leah." This is because Leah doesn't know how or quite understand the concept of a birthday yet, and so walks around saying, "Happy Leah." The cake looked great, and tasted pretty damn good too.