Pink and Orange Mod 40th Birthday Cake

Whew… what a Monday.  The next time I decide to start our new homeschool year on a Monday, smack me.  Seriously.

Not only did I choose a Monday (the worst day of the week IMHO), I chose a Monday where I also had a 4-H meeting and speech therapy appointment and errands to run at the library, grocery store, and consignment shop, and I’m “hormonal”….  enough said.

Sometimes I make really dumb decisions.

Anyway, it’s 10:15 pm and we just finished up supper and homechooling about an hour ago (shameful).    So now I sit down for my therapy… looking at cake pictures and writing and mindlessly deleting piles of emails…  yeah, I live my life in the fast lane!

So here goes… a Pink and Orange Mod 40th Birthday Cake.  Is “mod” the right description?  Or should I call it retro?   I’m never on top of the latest terminology for trends…

I have no idea why, but I only had a few pics of this cake and they were all the same and a little grainy.  Maybe my battery was dead that day and I used another camera… who knows?

There’s not a lot to say, I guess.  On the inside, it was Neapolitan cake and the filling and frosting was crusting cream cheese buttercream.

I had liberty to do any design I wanted, as long as it was fun and bright and “40”, so I decided to do a combo of stripes and polka dots.  It’s one of my favorite looks and I rarely get to put it on cake.

I used homemade marshmallow fondant for the pink and orange fondant, then used my ribbon cutter to do the stripes and a small round cookie cutter for the dots.

I free-handed the number topper with an Xacto knife, mixing some tylose into the fondant so it would dry hard.  You can read more about how I make number toppers here.

And that’s really all there is to say… the cake was simple, but I loved the overall look and was very happy with it!

How was your Monday?  I hope better than mine!!  Do you have any questions about the cake?  Leave me a comment!!