Strawberry Shortcake

Wow, who can believe how quickly time flies by???  We can't believe Easter just passed and another Tuesday almost slipped by!  So, we went into our photo gallery to find one of the most fun cakes we have made recently - Strawberry Shortcake's house!  This cake was for a very special first birthday girl, and her mother really loved the details.  We had everyone in the kitchen making little flowers, strawberries, and gift boxes.

Now, we pride ourselves in making all of our designs from cake.  We do not venture into the plastic pipes, metal or wood-working shops.  So we often have gravity challenges.  In this case, it was all about the strawberry house.  We decided this time, due to weight, we would try to make it out of rice cereal treats.  Now, all of us love eating these treats, so we made them just like always, nice and gooey.  Well, on our trial run, the house only lasted two hours before the treats started sagging - and Strawberry Shortcake can not live in a less than perfect house!  Our other option was to make less gooey treats, but who wants to eat those bricks?  So the kitchen munched on a house full of delicious rice cereal treats and decided to go back to what we do best - CAKES!

The cake was made in two parts the morning of the party.  One part of the staff took care of the base of the cake, making it the most beautiful pink cake abundant with flowers, strawberries and presents!  They also had to hand cut all the letters for the the name - they were quite busy.  The other part of the staff took charge of the house.  We learned that we can work with cakes in any shapes or forms, so we took out with some round cakes and started carving.  After a little while, the house started to come together with some icing, red fondant, green leaves and a stem.  All the windows, doors and flowers were hand made.  If you look closely at the photo, the windows even have curtains!

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