Shopaholic Cake

(Sorry Mom)

I made this cake for my mothers birthday this past weekend. 

Let’s just say… she likes to shop~!

This time the  cake was made from scratch (see Simple Butter Cake recipe) as I wanted a heavier cake to support some of the fondant figures.

The cake is a very simple butter cake with a cream cheese cinnamon filling.

This cake was large.  I used 2 cakes, both in a 12” x 2” deep pan.

I made  my own buttercream icing to crumb coat the cake.

For the decoration, I wanted to show an exhausted shopper after a fulfilling day of shopping.

I started with a comfy chair. This was made out of fondant only.

And of course some shopping bags.  The cake was also covered in pink fondant.

And now for our shopper ( or my mother )

Her hair was put through the garlic press.   Her eyes were holes filled with white fondant. 

But to me, they looked a little too wide open for an over-fatigued shopper, so I fixed that. (hehe)

The half-mast eyelids and gaping mouth pretty much says it all.

Since I was on my own making this cake and it took me hours, there are no more during pictures… so here is the finished cake.

 

Happy Birthday Mom