I started thinking about what I could make a cute cake for, and then it hit me...Heather's boyfriend (Traber) and I got her a micro-mini pig for Christmas, and we were going to pick her up the next day. SO, I made the little piggy (even though she wasn't allowed to eat any!) a "welcome" cake for her "gotcha day"!
DISCLAIMER: The cake pictured below was made by a beginner and has several flaws so don't be too critical ;)
I made a carrot cake (out of a box of course, I'm not trying to be a chef or anything! ;) ) with cream cheese icing.
Then I added green food coloring to some of the icing and used a fancy icing tip that I had forgotten I bought (think I have a shopping addiction?!) to make the grass on the top. I also added some yellow food coloring to icing to make little ruffles on the side.
I found the little edible pearls at Walmart for about 3 bucks, and LOVE them if you can't tell! haha! The flowers were made out of fondant (pink that I bought and some that I dyed purple) with the pearls in the middle of each...so easy!
I found a tutorial for the fondant pig on www.videojug.com ...the step-by-step instructions they give made it pretty simple!
Then for the words.....they were the one part of this cake that I truly, TRULY hated making. I have horrible handwriting so I decided to make the letters out of fondant. A lady I used to work with (who now has her own bakery by the way! Impressive, huh?) told me that you can use the Cricut to cut fondant if you change the settings. That probably would have been very simple and fast, BUT my Cricut is my child! I could never forgive myself if something happened to him because I was making a pig cake (no offense, Scamper! ;) )!
So instead, I used an X-Acto Knife to cut out each letter. SO tedious and time consuming, I don't recommend it unless you have incredibly bad handwriting...even worse than mine! ;) After that, I added a darker sparkly pink edible gel to the letters to make them a little cuter! and that's it! So I might have to add another hobby to my long list--stamping, Cricuting (yes, it's a word...now!), painting, dancing, fishing, and now...cake decorating!
Ok, NOW I get to brag...about my CUTE nieces!!!!
My two nieces (Honey the Boxer and Scamper the mini pig) meeting for the first time...wow, imagine how crazy I will be if I ever have a human niece!!! lol!
Scamper and her mommy (Heather) looking at the cake I made
Another cute picture of Honey and Scamper
I'll put up more pictures of Scamper soon but I ran out of room on my camera! haha!
-Sarah
