Baking, The Art You Can Eat!

Cake time again! Yay! hehe This time, my table isn't a complete and utter mess. Nice and neat :) This is for a birthday party, a 21st in fact, for my coworker's niece :)  I won't tell you what it is until the end... hopefully, you'll guess what it is before then.  Above has the red velvet cake already nice and mixed - added extra red coloring to try to make it even darker. Not sure if it worked... I put it in a loaf pan to get a nice fluffy rectangle :)  I also made a small 6'' circle cake and two cupcakes - one cupcake just for Evelynn because she wanted some cake... cream cheese frosting because, duh, it's red velvet cake.  Made the fondant that morning and gave it a bit of brown and a bit of black - the black certainly overpowered the brown... Covered the rectangle cake and stretched and folded over parts of the fondant to get those center three.. umm.. flaps I guess. Started punching out circles to start adding the texture. 

My little girl is turning three, so as a treat, I wanted to make her cake of course! :) Since cutting cakes is a hassle to me, I decided on a normal sized cake shaped for her theme (Doc Mcstuffins!) and cupcakes for easy picking and eating for guests. Let's just jump right into it!  The cupcakes were milk chocolate ones and the cake is, of course, birthday cake flavor. Yes, it is 9:14 PM as I am baking. Love to wait until the last minute. I did make the fondant the night before though!  The cake out of the pan and the cupcakes all nice and purty (note to self: don't stack milk chocolate cupcakes on each other, they stick!) The new (and cheap!) cupcake platter I bought :) Set up the cupcakes to see how many I needed to decorate (had four extra I think, three after Eevee ate one.) Getting everything ready... so much stuff... No, I didn't use all of this, but I take everything out in case I am hit with inspiration!  Cupcakes frosted and dec