My first birthday cake

As I mentioned in the first post, I'm teaching myself how to decorate cakes. I've made and frosted cakes before, but I've never tried to make anything unusual or fancy. The most complicated thing I've done is a typical two-layer round cake. When Melanie was planning Zack and Issie's birthday parties I volunteered to make the cakes. Zack's cake was to be a Lego block. The inside is actually made up of 9 little cakes I made in pans I got at the 100 Yen store. It said they were pound cake pans. I made one batch of white cake batter and then divided it and dyed the portions different colors. Zane loved watching the batter turn colors.

 Here are some of them after they came out of the oven. JR helped me decide how to stack them so the cake would be stable and look cool when you cut into it.

Then I dyed some buttercream frosting and stacked them together. The pegs on top are muffins that I cut flat on top and then flipped over and set on the cake.

This is what it looked like when we cut into it.

It turned out pretty well. The boys definitely enjoyed it. They were all asking for seconds and thirds.