I love pink and brown. I know that makes me such a girl. So I really wanted to do a girl cake. This cake was for the staff who had summer birthdays at my kid's school. I worked there last year. It is a private school with a small amount of staff who happen to all be women. So I knew I was safe making a girl cake for them. Except this year it turns out that there is a man. I don't know him-I just saw him from the carpool line. I really hope he did not have a summer birthday. It is bad enough that he has to be surrounded by women colleagues all day, but I hate to think of him having to eat pink cake too!
This was a cake done for my daughter's 8th birthday. She is such a sweet girl. I showed her a picture of a cake with a fondant bow with the curly ribbons on it and she looked at the cake and said she liked it but it was okay if I could not make the bow and stuff. So I had to prove to her that I could do it! This cake is a double layered 10 inch square on the bottom, the middle layer was two 8 inch rounds and the top a 6 inch round. The bottom two layers are pound cake filled with bavarian cream. The top layer is a banana cake. The entire cake is iced in buttercream with fondant accents. The brown accents were chocolate. It was nice to have than hint of chocolate!
