A Ladybug for my Livvybug

My Olivia is turning one this coming Saturday. For her big day, I decided to do a ladybug. In the future, I should allow myself more than three hours to do something like this! Mom baked the cakes for me on Friday night, and I decorated Saturday morning. This was two batches of buttercream (one pink, one chocolate), which is something I haven't attempted, and proved to be alot of work. Luckily, I had pre-colored black Wilton fondant, so that was one less color to make! Honestly, I find dying the fondant for
details to be easy and relatively quick. The flowers looked nice; I curved the edges of that top layer. One thing I would love to get it is the Cricut Cake, which does amazing looking flowers with these icing sheets - anyone use one before? I also used the steamer to finish this cake off, which I've seen on Cake Boss - SO COOL! it was so easy and really gives the cake the perfect finishing touch, and gets rid of imperfections (ie. that pesky confectioners' sugar that gets all over the fondant while you're rolling it!)



One thing I will remember for next time is my icing spreader, because the buttercream was not nearly as smooth and I would have liked it to be. Overall, I was happy with how the ladybug turned out! I'd probaby give her some eyelids next time (threw away the excess black fondant before I thought of it!) I should have gotten a better picture of Olivia with the cake, but with all the confusion of the day, and her having her own "smash cake," I completely forgot! DOH!