cakes, originally uploaded by tashistation.
Maybe I was too caked out from recent orders, because when it came time to make my own son’s first birthday cake (and his friend’s) I decided to go with simple and homemade-looking instead of an over the top, multi-tiered, fondant and gumpaste creation.
I love coconut cake, especially when covered in nice large flakes of unsweetened, organic coconut. It looks so much prettier than the finely shredded stuff (which I find just too sweet, especially on top of cake and frosting, which are pretty sweet already!)
The yellow cake with chocolate frosting ended up having a sort of mottled appearance, and after dotting it with little silver dragees, it sort of looked like a leather ottoman. Not exactly what we were going for but it did taste wonderful.
Happy first birthday son!!
