Woodland Friends Cake for Sophie's 1st Birthday

Inspired by finger puppets I made for all the 1 year old nieces this year, lucky little Sophie got them on her cake too! Hope everyone enjoys it tomorrow for the party!

Woodland Friends...

Here are the finger puppets I made and used as my cake idea!!

Woodland Friends Cake being made...

First off... sorry it has been so long since the last post on this blog! Its not for lack of time in the kitchen.... I have been focused more on breads and cooking. I guess I could pop that on here too, but the cakes, cookies and cupcakes are so much more fun to look at! That being said... I was asked to do Sophie's 1st birthday cake so of course, I had to make the super moist chocolate cake I do so well (from scratch).

You can't see it due to the icing, but there is a layer of chocolate icing and a layer of  cream cheese icing as the filling

I didn't ice the lower half as I am going to ice it with chocolate icing for the 'ground' of the  forest

Basic outline of the trees

I tried to give the trees a bit of a 3D look using a star tip and dragging the icing

I like the cake just like this personally... haha... very outdoorsy

I used the same stencils I drew for the puppets on the cake. I freeze cake as it is much easier to work with especially when needing to cut out small details

Here they are!  Next time I would consider icing before placing them on the cake as it might be easier to ice on the sides. Ultimately, I am a perfectionist and it really doesn't matter if they aren't done perfectly, it will still taste yummy!

I iced trees on the sides of the cake too... I like it when a theme covers as much of the cake as possible

Can't wait to see what Sophie thinks!