3D Minion Birthday Cake with minion cupcakes

Today's birthday cake is a 3D Minion cake from the movie Despicable Me. Four 6" vanilla cakes were stacked to create this fondant covered cake. This was a really fun cake to make and thanks to this fantastic tutorial put out by Ann of How to Cook That it was pretty stress-free. Trying to deliver it and deal with a four car accident on the way was most certainly stressful. Thank god I had air-conditioning in the car.

The customer also ordered 30 Minion fondant face cupcakes to feed the birthday girl's class at school. How lucky are they?

Finding Nemo "Squirt" birthday cake for a one-year old

The latest cake order I had was so much fun! This order was for a little boys first birthday and I was to make a 3D "Squirt" turtle Cale in red velvet along with 6 large fondant decorated turtle cupcakes and 50 mini buttercream covered cupcakes in the shape turtles. This order took quite a bit of planning but I'm really thrilled with how it turned out.

When the client picked up the cake she seemed happy with what I created and it just so happened that they were holding the birthday party at where I work my day job. Later I was able to talk to the server who did the party and see if everyone liked the cake. My co-worker's eyes went big and she said,"You made that cake?! I took pictures of it because I've never seen a cake like that before." Nice! I asked if there were any leftovers and she told me, "No. I was hoping she would leave me a little cupcake but she didn't." My kids complained of the same thing.

Happy 1st birthday Joshua. I had fun making your cake.