Mapple vs apy

This cake is an adventure in firsts...
First time making a two-tiered cake
First time using a stand mixer
First time making buttercream
First time using gum paste
First time using fondant (and coloring it... etc)
First time making a cake with this magnitude of awesome!

It was definitely an exciting day... Got 4 of my friends together to create this cute design, and a day later, we have a cake!

The cake and buttercream were all made from scratch... but the gumpaste and fondant were storebought since I didn't feel like trying to make them the first time we were going to use them... next time I'll try making Marshmallow fondant...

We baked 6 cakes since we weren't sure how many we'd use, or if we'd screw up, etc... so there was plenty to munch on to help 'fuel' the creative process ;)

Making the buttercream shouldn't have been hard, but apparently the stand mixer doesn't like me (see picture), so I passed that duty on to a friend.

I ended up coloring and rolling the fondant...and I'd say we had quite a love/hate relationship... in the end it mostly did what I wanted it to do.

The figures are my favorite part of the cake. They turned out awesome.

All in all it was great fun, and quite a yummy exercise as well.

Thanks to Matt, James, Andi, and Fallon for their help!