Twisted Pearl

I mentioned to my bestiest best friend Lisa recently that I really miss doing cakes and that I wanted to get back into that again – so she asked me to start off with her son’s first birthday cake for this weekend     She gave me a lot of freedom – just something with a zoo theme – so I did a bunch of googling and came up with a bunch of ideas that I like and combined my favorites together to come up with this:

The main cake is two rectangular chocolate cakes with strawberry jam between them. They are iced with bright green buttercream and surrounded by wafer cookie stick “posts” to give the idea of a fenced in display.  The “mountain/hill” is two round layers of chocolate cake, one smaller then the other, covered in a pale green marshmallow fondant. I used blue icing to create a water fall/lake and more green buttercream to add blades of grass around the edges of the hills and the base of the “cage”.  Finished it off with some adorable, age appropriate zoo animal toys and VIOLA!!!

Oh – and the idea is that the “1″ candle will go on top of the hill, at the top of the water fall.

I also made the invitations earlier and they match:)

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