Rapunzel for a 5 Year Old Princess

My oldest turned 5 last month. I asked her what kind of cake she wanted and she had extravagant answers that incorporated pretty much all Disney princesses as well as Minnie Mouse and Flynn Ryder. Well, that would make for a pretty cluttered cake. So, I came up with a simplified design for a Tangled Rapunzel cake.
I made a vanilla cake and stirred in some strawberry jam filling to make it a strawberry cake. That's what the princess wanted. I filled it with strawberry filling and covered it in vanilla buttercream.
Once the buttercream was set, I covered the cake in purple fondant. I added a panel of pink for the front of Rapunzel's dress and some purple lacing. I made a white ruffle to go up the sides of the lacing and around the top edge of the cake. The top of the cake was adorned in a yellow sun reminiscent of the sun in the Disney movie. I braided some yellow fondant flat ribbons for a bottom trim and added some royal icing flowers. I topped the cake with a Rapunzel ornament that the birthday girl can keep forever. In addition to the cake, I also made some cupcakes, just for good measure. She loved it and had a great birthday!

Flowers!

I knew I took Floriculture in high school for a reason. I made these flowers in my last Wilton Method class. I really enjoyed making these and loved the end result. I just thought I'd share.

Margarita Cake

I was so excited to make a margarita cake that I had been wanting to make. I was disappointed that it couldn't actually have alcohol in it but it was for a business. It was a vanilla cake with margarita mix soaker. (This is where the tequila should have been and would have added that extra unmistakable flavor.) It was filled with lime filling and covered in vanilla buttercream. I decorated it with sugar coated lime zest and slices of lime.

KTM Motorcycle Cake

In September I made a motorcycle cake (I know I'm a little late). It was a vanilla cake with cookies and cream filling and vanilla buttercream. I made the cake with four 6" rounds. I split two of the rounds so that I could fill them without them turning into a 4" high cake layer. These two rounds I shaped to look like tires and covered them with black fondant. After I stacked them, I added little squares of black fondant to resemble the tread on a motorcycle tire. The remaining two layers were stacked and covered in orange fondant. I added black squares around the bottom edge and it (unintentionally) ended up looking like a paddle tire. It came out really good. To cut out the letters for the KTM name, I rolled out black and orange fondant and allowed it to dry a little so that it wouldn't stretch or snag with the exacto knife. With a little bit of "glue" I stuck all the extra pieces on. Eventually I got the cake supported and stacked. No matter how I stacked it, the cake was doomed to lean one way or another. The major lesson I learned while making this cake was that it took far longer to do something like this than I had anticipated. Incidentally, I undercharged. Oh well. Its a learning experience. The end result did turn out pretty good.