One of my associates has a little girl who is turning 1 this weekend and asked me to make a cake a for her. I knew with a little one, I probably shouldn't use fondant, like I normally do, so I dug out my frosting skills and didn't do too bad! This is also the first tiered cake I've done. This is the bottom tier, for the adults, made of fondant. The white things poking out are the support for the top tier. I could have cut them down a little bit more, but for this cake, I wanted to ensure that the mom was going to be able to get the top tier off the cake for her little girl without wrecking it. This is the top tier of the cake, specifically for little Mia to dig her hands into. (I even added a little extra frosting to ensure she was extra messy!) And what's a cake without a topper? Boring.... so by request, I created a cute little elephant to go on top. I love how it turned out...and to think this was the easiest part of the whole cake! And the cake al