American Baker in Germany

 This cake was for a friend's child's birthday. Since she has a little boy, she wanted to make sure that the cake was boyish. His favorite cartoon is Paw Patrol and his favorite characters from the show are Chase and Marshall. So, that's the plan. I'm using these two simple faces of Chase and Marshall. And lots of primary colors. I have this logo cutter from Paw Patrol that I'm planning on using. I started with white for the background. Then a red shield. And a blue bone. Yellow large letters of the word Paw. Light blue smaller letters of the word paw. And a white bone on top of the blue one with the word Patrol on it as well as a small white paw for the center of the A. And I used some blue food coloring to paint on the word patrol. Now moving on to the figures, I started with a white circle for the background. I traced the light brown of Chase's face. This light brown was difficult to get, because if you add white to brown, it doesn't look great. I had to ...

 This was for my daughter's fifth birthday cake. Natalie specifically asked for pumpkin spice cake. I thought cinnamon Swiss meringue buttercream might go well with it. I frosted the cake. I covered it with white fondant. And I have four colors of fondant today. Purple, pink, turquoise and white. And I bought this Paw Patrol logo cutter on Amazon. I cut out the background from turquoise. The shield from pink. And the rest of the Paw Patrol logo out from the rest of the cut outs. Then I braided lengths of pink, purple and turquoise fondant and wrapped it around the bottom of the cake. Finally, I cut out Natalie's name as well as her age, 5, from pink fondant and laid it on the cake. I know the right side has slightly more white space than the left. However.... I really wanted to use this Skye candle for Natalie's birthday, so that's what the extra space was for. I think it looks perfect now. Happy Birthday, Natalie! Watch us make this simple Paw Patrol cake on YouTube he...