ME!!!
Is it strange to make your own birthday cake?
Is it stranger to make yourself two birthday cakes?
Well, I’m not sure what the answers to those questions are, but I made myself two wonderful cakes anyway. As it turns out, coming up with ideas for cakes for friends, family, and holidays is a much easier task than deciding on a design for yourself.
After much deliberation, and almost entirely giving up on the idea of having a cake for my birthday, I settled on two relatively simple ideas for myself.
My first cake, I decided to use my lovely giant cupcake pan to create my favorite dessert treat.
I dyed a bunch of white fondant using fuchsia coloring with the hopes to get a hot pink color but ended up with a purplish pink and only hot pink dyed hands. I used remaining bits of fondant to create some sprinkles and a cherry for the top of my cupcake. Simple decorations, easy to make, and a great look. Overall, the boy and I agreed that the colors were more appropriate for a kids party and that some silver dragees (those cool balls) would have looked even better.
My second cake, I knew I wanted to attempt a square cake and make it appear to be a nicely wrapped present. I originally was going to cover it in Tiffany blue (which would have gone great with my new earrings, Thanks to Shirlene, Zarko, and Luka!) but I used the same fuchsia color as the bottom of the cupcake. I used a small amount of brown coloring to dye some white fondant cream and created decorations.
I made another bow, this time opting to stack the ribbons facing the same direction. I got more height but found out it was difficult to finish so I used a ball of fondant as my finisher.
I used little pearls of cream fondant to line the edges of the cake and used strips of the cream as the wrapping of the “present.”
The cake looked great, and my family and I enjoyed eating it, even if there was more than enough for just the four of us. 
I am really happy with both of these cakes despite the weirdness of making my own birthday cake(s).
