LADYBUG CAKE!

My cousin asked me a while ago to make her a cake for her daughter, Addisons, baptism which was on Saturday. She said I could do anything, but it had to have ladybugs! I had a couple different I ideas of what I wanted to do, but I think this one came out nicely. All the ladybugs are so stinkin' CUTE! I made a Strawberry Cream Cake, two layers with buttercream icing in between. The ladybugs are the tops Strawberry Cream Cupcakes. I then iced the cake with green buttercream then got started on the lady bugs using red and black icing. I used white chocolate chips for their eyes. After that, I went to town on making the grass. I've never made a cake this big before so it was so exciting and I had fun!
The day before I bought one of those cake turntables which made the job a million times more simpler! 

Everyone loved the cake and all the kids were grabbing at the ladybugs and wanting to eat them before the cake was cut. 

Here is the recipe for the buttercream icing which I used! It's really yummy and it works great for decorating! I got the recipe from Wilton!

1 cup white veg. shortening
1 teaspoon of Flavour (I used vanilla. You can use any flavouring you like. But if you want your icing to be white, make sure its a clear flavouring so that your icing doesn't turn a strange colour. There is clear Vanilla!)
10 teaspoons of milk
2-3 cups of confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon of meringue powder

Cream shortening, flavour, and milk. Add the dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until thoroughly mixed. If you would like a thinner consistency add more milk, if you'd like it thicker either add more icing sugar or less milk. A thin consistency you would use for icing your cake and doing writing. A Medium consistency would be used for decorating doing borders and flowers, and the thick consistency you could use for making upright petals and flowers! You can always find more info, if you need it at Wilton.com

Kaits :)

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