Thread:FEY72/@comment-27050930-20160315060936/@comment-27050930-20160324042909

Fey ha ha ha ha ha. OK, I'm not even joking now:  that Princess you dreamed up is my new superhero and *needs* to made into an animated movie.

As for the cake, looking at the picture again for the first time in a while I see I was wrong when I said it was 3 tiers. I think I used 4 total cakes but unsurprisingly (for me) I can't even remember for sure. In any case I do know I made a few extra cakes - just in case. I had cakes in my freezer for months after that party.

The towers were from a castle kit and weren't edible. The cones on top of the towers were supposed to be covered with royal icing and sprinkles but I got pressed for time towards the end and just used elmers glue and colored sugar, OMG. Nobody was allowed to eat the cones, obviously. But I did it the right way for everything else. I even hand made the flowers using royal icing and food color, which actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Not the kind of fun I want to necessarily have again, ha ha.

It was truly a miracle that I pulled it off at all. And I mean that sincerely. This year my older daughter had a Harry Potter themed birthday party and I spent so much time on decorations and themed activities that I had no time/energy/will left for cake. So I bought store-made cupcakes and scraped the pretty spiral icing off, then frosted them myself to trick people into thinking they were homemade. Then I tried (and failed miserably) to use yellow icing to write a lightning bolt on top of each one thinking it would be too simple to screw up. Suffice it to say they were the saddest looking cupcakes you have EVER seen. I haven't downloaded those pics to my laptop yet but when I do I may just post them for your amusement.