30 Days of Edible Fondant Cupcake and Cake Toppers: Day 2: Sweet Safari Tiger

Sweet Safari Tiger Fondant Cake Topper by Cupcake Stylist

Celebrate your little princesses first birthday with this edible fondant "Sweet at One" or "Sweet Safari Pink" tiger topper.

What is your dream 1st birthday celebration cake?  Let me know...I would love to help make this milestone birthday cake unforgettable!

Deborah Jeffrey
Cupcake Stylist
www.CupcakeStylist.com

How To Turn Your Cake Into An Edible Safari

Several years ago I took a cake decorating class.  It was a wonderful experience where I learned many tricks---tips that I now use on creating your toppers!---but one of the most important things I was taught was how to frost a cake...

My instructor placed the cake on a turntable and showed us two methods for frosting a cake: 1 using a bent spatula, and the other using a special cake icing tip...

I have to confess, I like to take the easy route and when I saw that you could fill a bag with frosting and essentially squeeze out the frosting in three easy steps

 I knew this was the method for me!  I had watched my instructor get her cakes beautifully frosted in a matter of minutes and it looked easy enough.  I was confident I could do the same.  So I went out and bought tip #789, baked my cake, let it cool, leveled it, placed it on a cake board, and put it on my turntable for a "quick" frosting -- HA!  Instead of smooth, straight lines of frosting that covered the sides of the cake evenly, my lines spiked and dipped like a electrocardiograph monitor in an emergency room. 

What I forgot is that the instructor has YEARS of experience and what took her just a couple of minutes to do BEAUTIFULLY, took me too many minutes to confess here. 

A similar experience has happened to many of you, as well---you have a beautiful idea in mind, you assemble the right tools, but before you know it you have a full-scale disaster on your hands! 

Here is a quick and easy guide to turn your humdrum cake into a spectacular safari---no disaster necessary!

To create the cake (as pictured at the top of the post), you will need several items:

A delicious cake

The Classic Safari set*

A palm tree (or two, depending on the size of your cake)*







A set of rocks*

Some leaves*

Once you have frosted your cake (usually with green or brown frosting), place the animals and accessories on top of the cake (as pictured below).

When complete, you will have a safari cake that nobody can resist!

Happy styling!

*All fondant items are available for purchase at my website: www.CupcakeStylist.com or at my Etsy: www.CupcakeStylist.Etsy.com

Cupcake Stylist Fondant topper of the day: Day 17 - Sweet Safari Pink

The Sweet Safari Pink and Sweet at One 1st Birthday decorations are a favorite for celebrating those precious first birthdays!

I have "revamped" the Sweet Safari Pink fondant toppers on my site, to complement the decorations even more.  Now, instead of a lion with a mane, I am offering a sweet tiger with a tiara...

 

and instead of the zebra with brown accents, I now offer a zebra with gray accents...

the remaining animals have no changes = )

So here they are...the decorations

and the Sweet Safari Pink fondant toppers by Cupcake Stylist!

Happy Styling!