Happy St. Pat's

This year for St. Patrick's day, I decided to make the kiddos some cupcakes. And boy, were they happy! They scarfed them down faster than it took me to whip up the batter! I managed to salvage a few to at least get this picture!!

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Remember Super Mario Brothers?

So I had a cake order this past weekend for a birthday cake, for a little boy turning 8 years old. His favorite thing is Mario and Luigi! He liked Luigi more than Mario, so that's the cake he got! It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would, although at a whopping 6 hours, it was finished! This is one of the more "fun"cakes I have done, and I really enjoyed making this one! It was a blast!

I stacked together an 8" chocolate square atop of a 10" chocolate square. Of course, mostly iced in butter cream, but I decided to use a little fondant with this one, just so I could have an excuse to play around with it again =) Surprisingly, to me, it turned out great! I was slightly disappointed in Luigi, as he was a little bigger than I planned him to be, as pictured below. But, I guess for my first time making such a figure like this, I did an awesome job, LOL!

The mushroom and the star were pretty simple to do, but the plant was a little tricky too, but fun =) I decided not to do the whole thing in fondant, just because a lot of people don't care for the taste of it, so I thought mostly all butter cream would be better suited for a kid's party, and I was right! Here's a couple pictures of the cake, itself:

And I decided to finally post a picture of me and a cake I created =)

This was truly so much fun. Thank goodness for Nik's birthday coming up in a couple weeks, so I can do it all over again!!

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