Nicholas' birthday cakes

So I'm late with this (sorry Coz!), but here are the two cakes I made for Nicholas' birthday earlier this month. I made one for us to have on his birthday at our house and one for his party at Chuck E. Cheese's. (Click the pictures to see them fully)


This is the cake we had at home. I made a white cake and used a basic white icing that I dyed with Wilton icing colors. The black color tasted a bit bitter. Next time I think I should add in some cocoa to get better flavor and help make it darker without so much icing dye. I used a Wilton medium star tip and traced the Mickey design into the crumb coat with a knife before piping the design.


The big party cake. It was originally going to be a two tier cake, but lack of attendance at the party reduced it to one tier. I believe I made this a white cake as well with sprinkles added for color. I crumb coated it with basic white frosting and used the same frosting dyed blue for the top. I used the small line tip and purple dyed frosting to freehand the flower designs on the cake and made my first ever border around the bottom of the cake with the flower tip and green dyed frosting. The characters were bought on eBay. The pineapple house was made by molding rice crispy treats and covering with a thin layer of frosting and then covered with pre-colored Wilton fondant.