Getting Picture Happy

We received an order to make a birthday cake for a young photographer. There were going to be 20-30 guests, so we made a big cake: two 10" cakes, sliced into two layers each to be piled up high onto each other. We went with the moist chocolate cake and vanilla cake with chocolate hazelnut buttercream. There is one layer of vanilla, then a layer of chocolate, then another layer of vanilla and finally the top layer is chocolate. We covered it in the birthday girl's favourite colours: blue and purple. And, we added some fun little stars shooting out from the cake.

Because she is a photographer, we found out what kind of camera she uses and made some Rice Crispies squares to sculpt it. Once we got the shape approximately where we wanted it, we covered it in buttercream and covered it in fondant. Added the lenses and some details and voila! A yummi camera.

In the lense, I hand-painted "Happy 22nd" with some black food dye and placed her name on the cake.

We've already heard back and the cake was a hit! And, since she is a photographer, she took this fantastic photo of the inside of the cake:

Now if only she could be there everytime we make a cake to take such amazing photos!

Faith took our wedding photos, too. Check out her site: www.faithbowyer.com

Happy Birthday, Faith!