My First Birthday Cake From Scratch!

So I tested out a few things today. I have never made a cake from scratch so I made one today ( a few days ahead) in case something didn't work out and I would have to have a plan b. I decided that as a family we would celebrate Evangelia's birthday on her real birthday and I would make a special family cake. No pressure since I knew I didn't have to have it perfect for her party. Then we would have cupcakes for Saturday for a couple of reasons. One is that it is so much easier for little kids to eat and second I have cup cake holders and Care Bear rings to put on top of them so I don't have to decorate cupcakes like I did last year. So my cake turned out good. Sometimes cooking in high altitude will overcook things, under cook things or they end up non edible. I made a few cupcake and a small round cake with my recipe I found. It wasn't too hard either. Then I decided to take a piece of tracing paper and make a circle the size of my cake and then draw what I was going to do first. Just like my art classes... always draw a sample first. I am glad that I did. I drew a Care Bear from one of Ev's coloring books then I went to the computer and found a cute font and typed out Ev's name and then traced it on to my piece of tracing paper. I then iced the cake and made a few icing tubes out of more tracing paper. I mixed up my colors and I was ready to work. I am pretty happy with the results. Here are some pictures of my cake (now I don't want us to eat it!) and some of the fun decorations we have.