Hello Kitty Hearts Cake
This cake was 100% requested by my 6-year-old for her birthday. She wanted a Hello Kitty cake for her and her friends. It should be 2 tiered, strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream and hearts all over it. Okay, let's do it. I made a 5-inch and a 7-inch strawberry cake. And strawberry Swiss meringue buttercream. And, of course, fresh strawberries. I sliced the strawberries. And filled the cake with them. I also found a strange hole in one layer of cake that I filled with a strawberry. Then I frosted the cake. I made the top tier on a piece of cardboard cut to size and covered in tin foil. Then I frosted the top tier. And I covered both tiers in white fondant. I added some pieces of wooden skewer cut to size and placed the top tier on top. Then, I made two big, pointy ears. In hindsight, I could have made them bigger. Then I added two black circles as eyes, black stripes as whiskers and a yellow circle as a nose. I used a plunger cutter to make this pink bow and placed it below...