How To Decorate A Cake: One Cake Three Ways

I gots some sweet cake decorating ideas for lazies today! Check out my post on how to decorate a cake on You Are My Fave - including this candy topped beauty. Shortly after this photo was taken all of the mini eggs and malt balls were destroyed by ingestion. Candy problem, right here!!

PS you're not lazy. Even if you are, lazy cake decorating can still be great.

Drippy Chocolate Nutella Birthday Cake

My man of almost 13 years (whutttt!) celebrated his birthday in December - he loves chocolate hazelnut, so I made him a dark chocolate with Nutella buttercream cake with a drippy shiny yummy ganache topping. Frigging perfect. I do love the drippy look - reminds me of Wayne Thiebaud's wonderful cake paintings! I've always loved those paintings. Thick paint spread on like a perfect buttercream as though you could eat the canvas, modest simple cakes displayed neatly, almost obsessively, side by side - ready to be sliced for eager customers or boxed up and gingerly taken home for a sweet birthday party. 

Happy happy birthday RT! Love you so much!

xo Lyndsay 

Polar Bear Cake DIY for Handmade Charlotte

Hellllo there, polar bear face cake with delightful fish dinner ready to be snacked on! This polar bear cake would be so cool (heh heh) for a kid's Arctic themed birthday party, right? Check out my DIY polar bear cake over at Handmade Charlotte for this beary nice cake idea. 

I think it's so fun to think about birthday party themes for Teddy's future birthdays. But who the heck knows what he'll be into each year... I can't realistically force him into having a cute Marimekko vintage car wallpaper themed party or pink French poodle party, can I? I hope I can steer him far away from video games... but I know how unrealistic that might be... well at least I hope he is interested in art and crafting - he already loves music and is very taken by instruments, so that's a plus!

Happy new year, everyone! All the very best for a sweet 2014. I've got a mega Top Cakes of 2013 post coming up with loads of cakey eye candy ... so do come back and visit soon!

xo Lyndsay