Happy 1st Birthday, Zoey!
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Last weekend we celebrated my little girl's very first birthday. What stinks is that my husband and I have both been busy working overtime and didn't have much time to prepare for her party. I'm sad that I didn't get to go all out for her cake, but it still turned out cute and she eventually dug into her smash cake.
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"Watermelon" Party Cake:
- 8" round Duncan Hines Red Velvet box cake
- filled with whipped cream cheese pudding
- iced with pink and green IMBC
- dark chocolate chips (as seeds)
- 6" round Duncan Hines French Vanilla box cake, cut to resemble a slice of watermelon
- iced with pink and green IMBC
- dark chocolate chips (as seeds)
I must apologize first. We were so busy and strapped for time before the party, I didn't have a chance to stop and take pictures of the process. But here's what I did.
There were so many great "watermelon cakes" on cakecentral.com's gallery. One in particular had me wondering how she got the red icing in such a clean and precise circle. I decided to try the frozen buttercream transfer technique. I traced a 7 1/2" circle on to parchment paper. My pink icing got piped into that circle to about 1/2" thick. Using a butter knife I tried to smooch the icing together. It sat in the freezer while I torted, filled, and crumb coated the cake. My disc-o-icing was pretty firm by then and I was able to peel the paper off and place it on top of the cake. You could see the "worms" of icing that I had piped on that didn't get smooched down. I used some room-temperature icing and glided it along the surface to seal in all those imperfections. It looked so flat and smooth! I may just have to do this with my normal cakes!
I had JUST enough icing to do both the party cake and the smash cake. When it came to sing happy birthday, little Zoey wasn't sure what to do. I stuck her hand into the cake. Once she realized it was food, she gradually began to chow down!
Happy Birthday, Zoey!
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