Today, we'll look at Year 2. If I had to identify a first love of Trace's beyond Mom & Dad, I'd have to say animals. Since he was a baby, he's always been drawn to them and so it became a no-brainer deciding on his 2nd birthday theme..."On The Farm". Here's a pic of the cake table:
I got the idea to do a barn when I found a "house" cake pan from Wilton. I baked 2 funfetti house cakes, placed them standing up side by side, and "glued" them together with chocolate icing. (Trace's 3rd love could easily be identified as "trocolate" as he used to say when he was 2.) :) Then I used a flat side of the basketweave tip to give it the look of wooden boards and used the same tip in white for the trim & doors. For the hay, I added brown to the red icing I had left over and piped it with a shell tip. Then I took a break from piping cause my wrist was killing me and began to work on the cupcakes. ;)
The cupcake idea, I stole directly from a Wilton catalog. Basically, they are mini sugar cookies for the faces and snouts that I stacked on top of cupcakes with icing. I had made more, but a few of them lost their heads after sitting overnight. :( Then I placed them all on green cake boards and sprinkled green coconut all around. It was rather simple, but tedious.
Here's Farmer Trace enjoying his 2nd Birthday celebration!
Stay tuned for Year 3...coming soon! :)
