Cars and Trains First Birthday Cake
This cake was for the little boy of a colleague of mine. Technically she was still on maternity leave, but she came by and visited us regularly. And eventually, she asked me to make her baby's first birthday cake. We looked at several baby's first birthday cake for boys before she decided she wanted a cars or trains theme. I also noticed that her favorite cakes had bright primary colors. As for the flavor of the cake, we went back and forth for a while. She originally wanted one layer vanilla and one layer chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream. But by the end, she changed her mind to two layers chocolate cake with raspberry filling and raspberry buttercream. We can work with that. First, I stuck the first layer of chocolate cake to the cake board with raspberry buttercream. Then I piped a circle of buttercream around the bottom layer and filled it with raspberry jam. And I stacked the top layer on top. I crumb coated the cake in t...