Teddy Bear Cake
This cake was for my niece's second birthday. Her mother didn't have a specific theme, but she gave me a few ideas of what she likes. One of them was teddy bears. I'm using lemon cake today. And I colored some lemon buttercream blue. Kind of a pale baby blue. Then I took some of the blue buttercream and added just a touch of pink. It turned a kind of periwinkle or blue-y purple. Then I put both colors into piping bags. The blue buttercream with a grass tip and the purple into a piping bag with a very small star tip. I had two layers of lemon cake. An 8-inch and 7-inch. I cut the 7-inch cake into smaller circles using a circle cutter. I know the small circles weren't perfect circles, but I kind of meant that to happen. Because they will be the ears of the teddy bear, and the whole circle is actually more than I need. The larger circle is the snout and the smaller ones, I cut the sides more flush to the cake and placed them ...