Did you know that today is National Cake Decorating Day? Well, neither did I - until yesterday. I ran across this odd holiday and promptly decided it must be celebrated! What better way than to decorate a cake, right? It's really feeling like fall around here, so I decided to go with the autumnal theme. :) So fun to make!
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Top row: 6" carrot cakes and mini cupcakes cooling, coloring sugar red, dipping frosted cupcake tops in sugar, frosting the top of the 6" cake and covering with more sugar.
Bottom row: Mini cupcakes with hole poked in center, making marshmallow fondant, using a mixture of vanilla and brown color to paint the fondant (removing powdered sugar and adding more dimension), using knife to score veins in all the multi-colored fondant leaves.
That was my morning from 7 to 12:30! :) It's early enough in the afternoon that now that you know about this holiday, YOU can go have some fun and decorate a cake. Try it!
~Sarah
Ok, Miss Sarah...you take the cake! Pun intended :) Wow, wonderful job...way to pretty to eat! Hope you just sit around and look at it awhile before it's eaten.
Blessings ~
Laura
Posted by: Laura | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 02:54 PM
Wow sarah that looks awsome!!! --looks yummy too! :)
good job!!
-Laura
Posted by: O'Dorisio | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 04:37 PM
You made that?! No way!!!! That is fantastic! I am complete and utter awe!
Posted by: Stephanie in MI | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 08:06 PM
Oh my goodness, that is so cute! Nice job Sarah, it sure looks like a LOT of work. :)
Posted by: Chris | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 08:21 PM
That has to be the most amazing cake I've ever seen - and I've taken those decorating classes. GREAT JOB!!!
Victoria
Posted by: victoria | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 09:03 PM
I will take a piece of all of them. they look delicious.
Posted by: brenda perdue | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 09:50 PM
Wow!!!! You have so much talent Sarah!
Posted by: Leslie W | Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 07:30 AM
AWESOME!!!
Posted by: Connie H | Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 07:47 AM
BEAUTIFUL cake!! Oh my word!!!! Too lovely to eat!!! Now THAT'S a problem!!!
Are y'all going to the White Unto Harvest conference? We are not. Our lives have huge changes this year (we are in the process of moving AND my husband, after MUCH MUCH prayer left the pastorate and took a new job) and everything's up in the air.
Pray y'all are all well!! VERY happy to see that Granny is better!!! Scary!!
His,
Shari
Posted by: Mrs. U | Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 07:37 PM
I didn't know it was National Cake Decorating Day! What a great job you did. I'll have to make a note of that for next year. Can't be letting important days like that slip by unnoticed!
Posted by: Diann | Friday, October 12, 2012 at 02:16 AM
Sarah,
That is a truly amazing and prize-winning cake! Did you design it yourself or follow a pattern of some kind? And...did you all actually EAT it?? We're not sure we could put a knife to it.
Many blessings,
Mrs. White & anna
Posted by: Kathy W. | Friday, October 12, 2012 at 09:26 PM
Wow! Absolutely Beautiful, Sarah!!!!! You did a fabulous job!!!!
Posted by: Jodi | Monday, October 22, 2012 at 11:16 PM