LucyPalooza

I made a cake! And I enjoyed it so much! I can't even remember the last cake I did before this one, but when Haylie asked me to make a cake for Lucy's first birthday I thought about it for about 1.5 minutes before I decided that YES, I was definitely ready for it. I had told myself that I would resume cake decorating when Lillian started sleeping through the night. Well, unfortunately that hasn't happened yet, but I think I just needed to do something that I really enjoy!

Lucy had a princess party, so I did some researching on the internet and found several cakes that I really liked and just pieced them all together into one beautiful cake fit for a princess! The bottom tier was strawberry (to go along with the mounds of pink that was strewn all through Haylie's house!) and covered in white buttercream. I did a quilted pattern on the bottom tier and put edible pink pearls on the cross pattern. The top tier was french vanilla covered in pink buttercream. I piped a sash around the top tier and added some pearls to it. I topped it all off with a white chocolate tiara that I hand piped. I added some of the edible pink pearls to dress it up! The whole thing was sprayed down with a good coat of lustre dust to make it shimmery... princessy!

Lucy's smash cake was a miniature carriage in coordinating colors. The wheels are white chocolate. Cake is french vanilla covered in buttercream. Here are some pictures, but once again, I took them with my cell phone so the lighting is bad!

Taelyn and I made some cute princess cupcakes, too! Yep, Haylie even had the three year olds working on the party!!!

The entire party was truly amazing! Complete with a huge castle that Nick built out of big boxes, a craft table with crowns, tiaras, swords and wands, and a horse drawn carriage giving rides around the neighborhood! Happy first birthday, Lucy! I am so honored to have been a part of it!