Cupcake Tease Revisited...Fondant Animals & Barn Scene!

I just realized I never updated you guys on those fun fondant animal cupcakes I made for a party recently. The Mom of the cute little 1 year old whose birthday it was sent me a picture of the setup...so I just had to share.

I did the barn cake which was about a 10x12 finished product made of 2 thick layers of red velvet with cream chese frosting inside. It was ridiculously heavy...I used 3 cake boards glued together to hold it all up. The cupcakes which were vanilla w/vanilla bean buttercream.



I frosted some of the cupcakes to look like grass, and put fondant letters on top of them and #1's. Also some of them got tasted coconut on top for haystacks.



The rest of the yummy, cutely frosted cupcakes got the fondant animals as toppers.



The cake was time consuming extraordinaire...it took me 2 nights of about 3-4 hours each. I like cupcakes way better! Overall though, after the enterprising Mom got a cloud/grass tablecloth and arranged it all, the scene was SO CUTE...it matched almost to the tee the invitation the Mom had sent out.

I also got the sweetest email from the Mom about how happy she was with everything. Somehow it made it all worth it. I love this hobby! Oh yes and PS I am back from Europe. More on that in my TWD!