WFMW- Cake decorating

I wanted to share with you all the very beautiful and easy way to decorate your children's birthday cake for a fraction of the cost a professional cake decorator would charge!  We will start with Bo's birthday cake he wanted a bug cake.  I was a little overwhelmed at first and then I turned to the trusty computer and started searching.  I came up with a dirt hill and bugs on it.

This cake was really easy, I first made a 9x13 marble cake and iced it with chocolate frosting.  Then I took my Pampered Chef batter bowl and made another marble cake I placed it on top of the iced 9x13 cake to make a mound.  I then iced the round cake with chocolate frosting as well.  I took 3/4 of a bag of chocolate filled oreo's and 15 gram crackers and 15 chocolate wafer cookies and ground them down in the food processor to make "dirt".  I then patted the dirt onto the icing and put plastic bugs all over.

Now Daisy's cake was a little difficult.  She wanted a Barbie princess birthday cake...  I spent a really long time scanning the Internet in search of a cake and I combined several ideas and what I came up with is to take a 9 inch round cake and also the batter bowl for the dress.  I bought a 5 dollar barbie and after the stacked cakes had cooled I wrapped her legs in plastic wrap and stuck her down in the middle (I hollowed it first) leaving her top exposed.  I also put her hair in a plastic bag.  I then took fondant found at Walmart and dyed it purple with Wilton's food color.  I rolled and rolled until I had just the right amount and put her dress on.  I cut around the base of the cake stand and made a top with the remaining fondant, as well as a bow for the bake of her dress.  I then took cake decorating tips and made the back of the dress, and the decorations.  The polka dots are Wilton decorating dots for cakes.  The total decorating time not including baking was around 2 hours.  Daisy was very happy with her cake.

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