This summer were available to celebrate Eliana's birthday. With Eric getting married just a few days later, he asked if I would help him by making her a birthday cake. Since it worked well with my schedule, I was happy to help take that off his plate (pun intended).
Eliana has enjoyed playing softball this Spring, so I jumped at the chance to do something other than a soccer ball. Her team was the green Lucky Charms, but I didn't have any clover cookie cutters, so I went with stars instead. She also wanted a raspberry compote, and seeing as I have never made a cake with a compote, much less made a compote itself, I took that as a challenge.
Fortunately, the raspberry compote was so extremely easy to make, and tasted delicious. I will definitely try that again. It was placed between the chocolate layers of the bottom half of the cake. The round softball was a cake pop mixture of cake and frosting (copied from Cody's 17th birthday basketball cake). It helped it keep it's shape so nicely, and make it easy to cover with the softball fondant coloring.
Finally, I attempted fondant stars on little metal wires to help give it a little pizazz on the top, That proved to be a nice touch and really was easier than I thought it would be...not that I thought it would be that hard. All of this made for one happy girl!
