Every cake has a story...

This cake was made for my nephews 1st birthday party! A long story goes along with this cake. I had originally made the same cake for Connor's birthday party (as seen below with the green background), however, my 1 year old son at the time decided to taste the cake. He just wanted to make sure it tasted good, right mommy? WRONG! I absolutely FREAKED OUT! Let's just say things got a little crazy in my house for a little bit! I did not have time to bake another cake, ice the cake, roll out the fondant, cut out the circles in the fondant, or do any decorating of any kind! So I panicked and did what every other 25 year old girl does... CALLED MY MOM! HELP! Luckily we were able to find a very plain decorated cake at Country Mart. So I bought the cake took all of the decorations off and re-iced it using the icing that was left. Needless to say I was in panic mode. I was searching and my mom was searching for fondant in the colors I needed. There was no way I was going to be able to color my fondant from scratch. Finally found the fondant. At this point there was probably and hour or so before the party. I very quickly rolled out the fondant, cut the circles and decorated the cake. In the end, my nephew had a wonderful cake and no one knew the INSANE day I had. Every cake has a story!

If you are wondering about my son, who just wanted to taste-test the cake, he was fine. I did not do everything to him that was going through my head at the time! Haha! I calmly (only because I was in shock and couldn't speak) took him over to my husband and said "take him now, keep him in your hands at all times right now". But like I said above, everything came together and no one really knew the story behind Connor's cake!

This is the smash cake I had made for Connors pictures. My sister in law told me that Connor was intrigued with the dots. He wouldn't smash his cake. He just picked off the dots! Too cute!