Micah's 2nd Birthday

With plans to move Micah's birthday to the cottage, I needed a cake that could travel.  But, when I ran across the new little trains released by the Thomas company, I knew I could make something work.  This cake focused again on the homemade fondant.  I wanted to see if I could make the colors dark enough (especially the black) and gain more experience working with the slightly different texture that homemade fondant has.  As with my previous cake, I used the gel food coloring and was able to use very little to get the bright colors I was looking for.  I also really like the flexibility of making shades and multiple colors without having to spend so much money.  With this cake, the black turned out nice and dark and got even darker as it stood for a while.

Micah loved the cake and barely let me get one picture in before he was playing with the trains.  Amazingly enough, the fondant even stood up to him playing trains on it!