I made this birthday cake for a friend of my mother's. Her son was turning 2 years old and I had just bought those cake pillars and wanted to try them out. I figured if I was going to make it a two tiered cake, I would have to make it a little more kid friendly, so I added the bear on the top.

The two round cakes were devil's food cake, which I almost always use when I'm making chocolate cake because I find it to be the most durable and best tasting IMO. The icing was white chocolate buttercream tinted blue and purple.

The bear on the top of the cake was made of a chocolate pund cake. In the types of molds where characters have to stand up, I always use pound cake because it is so heavy it won't crumble apart from the weight of it. The icing on the outside of the bear was the same white chocolate buttercream, but was tinted 2 different shades of brown with food coloring. I used a star tip to cover him with the icing.

The little bees on the cake were actually my mom's idea. We tinted fondant black and yellow and rolled them together to create little bubblebees, then attached wings to them made out of waxed paper. Lastly, we drew little faces on the bees using an edible marker.

This was one of the more fun cakes I've made, and I've used that bear mold many times since then but regretably don't have too many pictures of it. I don't make children's birthday cakes too often, but I enjoy doing them since they allow more creative freedom sometimes than traditional wedding cakes.

The people who I made this cake for loved it and said it all got eaten up at the party. I ended up making the same boy's birthday cake the next year, but I didn't take a picture of it!! I'm going to have to start doing that!

***One more thing I forgot about this cake is that I made it back when I had enough motivation to make royal icing flowers, so the bear is holding one royal icing daisy and there are a bunch on top of the bottom cake tier in the middle.