My sweet little baby girl turned one last month, and for her birthday I decided to make my first tiered cake. The bottom tier is 9" chocolate cake with a delicious chocolate buttercream that I found
here . After icing the chocolate layer, I took the remainder of the chocolate frosting and added dark cocoa to it, just to make it a couple shades darker for piping the borders.
The top layer is a 6" round while cake with vanilla buttercream, covered in purple fondant (also a first for me). On top, is Wilton's mini 3D bear pan decorated with buttercream stars.
I also made teddy bear sugar cookies to match the cake and send home with each guest as a party favor:
The mini teddy bear cake topper also did double duty as the smash cake!
