For my friend, Sam, birthday I decided to go all out. She just turned 16, about to get her licence, and had moved so I thought a big fabulous cake would be the thing for her. I just added a hint of fun by putting a dinosaur with a necklace under the top tier. I also made some cup cakes with little dinos on them. :)

She really enojyed this cake.

The cake is a confetti cake filled with a thin layer of strawberry jam. I made some easy butter cream icing to coat the cake, then covered both with pink marshmallow fondant.

I used MMF (marshmallow fondant) to make the leaves, letters, small flowers, and roses for this cake. The roses, and there are 16 of them!, were difficult and time consuming but totally worth it for her. :)

I had to use two cake mixes for this whole thing.

It was a huge success.

I’m very proud of how far I’ve come and how well I’ve done.