Autumn turned eight today!
For her birthday cake this year I decided to make a watermelon cake. Autumn loves watermelon, so I thought this would be a nice idea for her.
The cake I made was whole wheat vanilla cake colored with pink food coloring and I added 1/2 cup dairy-free chocolate chips to the batter to make watermelon seeds.
I made two 9-inch cakes so that the cake would be two layers thick.
You could just make one cake, cut in in half and then place the two halves together to make two layers, but I wanted my watermelon a bit wider, so I cut the cakes a little bigger than halfway.
I then stuck the two cakes together with jam.
Next, I frosted the cake with a layer of vanilla frosting and then layered on the vegan marshmallow fondant icing.
I had made the marshmallow fondant icing before I made the cakes so that everything would be ready to go. I colored the icing pink for the watermelon, green for the rind and brown for the watermelon seeds.
Finally I decorated the cake by adding the green watermelon rind and stuck on some brown fondant for the watermelon seeds. I then placed the cake into the freezer to harden a bit so that I could stand it up and take a picture.
I really didn’t want to make another fondant cake because they are so time consuming and not so healthy with all of the sugar and coloring, but she had her heart set on the fondant and so I had to make it for her to be fair since I had made Kesa one this year on her birthday. These fondant cakes are always a super sweet treat to my girls since they don’t often have sugary treats. I figure that this will be my last fondant cake, at least for a while anyway.
It was worth it to see her happy on her birthday. 🙂
Happy Birthday Autumn! 🙂
Happy Birthday Autumn! I love the photo timeline. Must be neat to see all the changes that happen in 8 years! Also, that cake is a masterpiece, what a happy birthday girl you made 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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Happy 8th bday Autumn, have a wonderful day .What a special cake you have, that cake looks amazing , what a fantastic and fun idea, happy day !
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Thanks Monica! 🙂
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Well done Tiffany. Your cakes always look amazing. Autumn would’ve loved it!
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Thank you Renata!
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This cake looks fantastic! I really like the Strawberry Shortcake themed cake also. You’ve got skills!
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Thanks!
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Wonderful birthday wishes to Autumn, hope she had a wonderful day. The cake is amazing!
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Thanks Kim! 🙂
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lovely cake!!!!! happy birthday!!!!
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🙂
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very nice! And one lucky young lady!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Great idea for a cake! It’s super cute… Love the birthday timeline pictures. From her first birthday, you can tell who she is. Her cheeks may have been chubbier, but she still looks like Autumn 🙂 Also, I was shocked to realize, I’ve been following you and your family for 2 years now! I remember you making her 6th and 7th cakes. How time flies!
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Thanks Starr! I am glad that you’ve been around so long. 🙂
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What a big girl! Very fun to see the photos through the years. And the cake is so special. Happy birthday to Autumn!
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What a lovely cake! I´ve never made fondant, and I´ve not been able yet to make “buttercream” or other frostings look nice and smooth. Do you have a trick?
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No trick really, it is quite simple. The fondant icing is made from vegan marshmallows and you just have to roll it out and cover the cake with it. You can also cut out shapes to stick on as well. Sometimes I do two layers of the fondant in case there are any imperfections in the first layer (holes or wrinkles). Here is a link to the tutorial for the fondant https://livelearnloveeat.com/2011/06/06/the-great-6-hour-amazing-vegan-fondant-cake-making-adventure-all-in-one-super-long-blog-post/. 🙂
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Happy birthday Autumn! My little Autumn’s birthday is tomorrow. 🙂
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That is so neat that their birthdays are so close! Happy Birthday to your Autumn tomorrow! 🙂
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Love all her birthday pics through the years–what great cakes! I love the Strawberry Shortcake one…is that sweet knitted strawberry hat handmade?
Happy Birthday, Autumn!
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Wow! Love it! Your cakes are always so much fun! I love watermelon! When I was just a little kiddo I won a watermelon eating contest against a bunch of big kids, mostly boys. They were teasing me until I won the contest. 😉
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Hi,
Of you decorate cakes for people? I want a yarn ball with a kitten but am doing it extremely clean and nobody is willing to work with me
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Sorry, I just do my own cakes.
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