Yesterday Adam and his dog, Charlie, graduated from the dog training class at Petco. Adam wanted to thank his instructor and asked if I'd make a cake for her. 

I thought about doing a layered fondant cake and making puppies playing around it but then I remembered that I have the Wilton dog pan, which it looks as if they may no longer make.








Adam was running too late to pick up the cake so I delivered it to the store. As I was taking it in, there was a bit of uneven sidewalk and I tripped. Luckily I caught myself and didn't fall and drop the cake but boy was my heart pounding for a few minutes!


 I think his instructor liked it. I thought it came out pretty adorable.  Charlie got a bite of the icing. He liked that pretty well! Heh. 

Friday night I threw a birthday party for my friend, Gloria, at the bowling alley. Since her favourite colour is purple we thought it would be fun to make it a Purple Princess party theme.

Who cares that she was turning 43? You're never too old to be a princess. 

With the theme set, I decided to make a doll cake. I hadn't made a doll cake in years! As luck would have it, I couldn't find my Wonder Mold, the Wilton pan to make the big doll cake. This is a shame because I don't think Wilton makes that pan anymore.  (Actually, it turns out that they still do!)

I did, however, know exactly where my mini wonder mold pan was located. Ha! Usually I refer to it as my boobie pan since more often than not I've used it to make boobs for stag party cakes.



I stopped by Hobby Lobby and picked up a pack of doll picks. I thought I was going to put 3 dolls on a cake base but in the end I could only fit on two.

The cake itself, was delicious. It's one of my doctored cake recipes. It was a banana cake and not a morsel of it was left except for the cake under the dolls themselves. I made a Banana Cream Cheese filling and sprinkled the cake layers with Banana Rum. Mmmm... It was soooo good.

I found the little candles along the bottom, at Party Pig. Aren't they cute? They included two shoes, a handbag, a heart  & a star perfume bottle and a crown.



Here is a view of the pink doll.  Gloria was very happy with her cake and I was very pleased with the way it came out.

Ohhh, I almost forgot to mention where I found the crowns. I was hunting all over Hobby Lobby for something to use for crowns on the two princesses when I spotted these silver crown charms on half price at 50 cents each. I used the little holes to push in pins to hold the crowns in place.

Of course I then had to tease Gloria that it's my fault if she's an airhead. Heh.