Happy Birthday Baby Betsy!

With a sweet name like Betsy, she just had to have a cute cake. And if she is even half a cute as her sister (who I got to meet) then their mom is very blessed, and also in trouble (the cute ones can be sneaky). =)

The flowers are royal icing, and the ladybugs are fondant (you can't tell from these pictures, but the big ladybugs are smiling). Everything else is buttercream.

I was pretty pleased with how it turned out. I tried lots of new techniques for this, so I spent a lot of time on it.

I wanted the traditional "smash cake" to be cute, and similar to the big cake, but still something that she would actually want to eat, or at least smash, (aimee didn't really want anything to do with her smash cake at her 1st birthday party), so I didn't use the hard royal icing. I HAD to put a baby ladybug on there, but I made sure to tell Betsy's mom to remove it, before Betsy could.