Pixie Hollow Birthday Cake

I HAD to share this birthday cake that I made for Vivienne's birthday party. I HAD to. Because I am super proud of it, and I love it so much. Cake making is my jam. This year, Vivienne is way into the Disney Fairies - and it dawned on me during the summer months: "Oh shit. I am going to have to make Pixie Hollow."

So here it is - it's all edible except for the figures, the compass and the moonstone. (Both an homage to Lost Treasure.) I don't usually like to work with rolled fondant - it makes cakes look great, sure, but they taste like bleck. But Tinkerbell's house is a teapot and it needed to be smooth. And as long as I was working with fondant, I figured, why not make some green leaves for the top of the house. Otherwise it's all buttercream or royal icing. In fact, I made all the little royal icing flowers all over the house and in Rosetta's garden.

And if you're wondering what the biggest pain was - it was the rainbow. Coloring tiny batches of icing - only enough to make one part of the bow, then having to wash the tip after ever color and prep a new bag... blerrrrrg.

overview of the cake

Detail of Fawn

back of Tink's house

The moonstone!

Front of Tink's house (minus the teapot lid) with compass

Silvermist next to a waterfall surrounded by chocolate rocks.

Rosetta in her garden

Iridessa and her Rainbow.

Tink's house and the hills/stumps are cake, but that wasn't enough for the number of guests, so I also made rainbow cupcakes with pixie dusted tops.

O hai, creepy.

Birthday Cake Before & After

Vinny's birthday 2012

Don't We Love It Now?

I lost count of how many times we listened to "This is Halloween" today - i guess somewhere around the 15th re-start. I'm still not sick of it. Especially since Vivi is doing her best impressions of all the characters.

I bought the soundtrack, but... well, I miss the olden days when you purchased a soundtrack & you got the actual audio from the film. Not select tracks. So, to that end, I used garage band to split off the audio of the entire film & burned it to a disc for our driving pleasure. "This is Halloween" is so much richer with Foley! Ah! The sounds of pumpkins smashing on spikes! Lush!

A rustling sound, then from the backseat, a little voice says, "Sally is picking plants!" The sounds of clinking, "Jack is doing science. He doesn't understand!"

It's endlessly fun.

People tell me princesses and pink are inevitable & around the corner. Well then, I won't waste time dreading it, or spend energy raging against the storm. I'll just enjoy this moment in time with my daughter & our misunderstood Pumpkin King & hit repeat again. And again. And again.

Death Row

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