Kate's Ladybug Cake

It was almost a year before I put my full skills to use on my own child's birthday cake. This is Kate's first birthday cake, and I really love how it turned out. I find that it's hard to get a really vibrant red and black, and this frosting turned out perfectly. I wish I'd known that I needed thinner frosting to get really pretty flowers, but I like it nonetheless.



For the three-dimensional ladybug, I baked some cake in two ramekin dishes. The first I left intact and it became the ladybug's body. The second I cut into a moon shape and made it the ladybug's head.