Quick Zebra cake

This is a quick little cake that I did for a great little girl turning 10.  Her mom said that she liked animal prints of all kinds so I went with both zebra and leopard.  I used caramel for the leopard spots and it worked out great expect caramel has different melting point than chocolate butter cream.  It was a hot day when I delivered it and I had to make sure it sat (in the closed box) down on the floorboards of the car with the air conditioning blasting!  My feet were freezing but the cake made it just like it needed to!

Buttercream Transfer tutorial

I've never actually posted a tutorial.  I usually don't get enough pictures for that, but this time I purposefully tried to make it happen.  I needed to do a Madagascar cake for little girl and at first thought I would just get a few little toppers and keep it simple.  But I couldn't find any when I went out looking and had to turn to plan B.

I've done buttercream transfers before and they can be a lot of fun if they turn out well.  They can be very frustrating however, if they don't turn out well!  But that's how it goes with a lot of cake decorating doesn't it?  If you've never tried to make a transfer I hope I can do a good job of explaining them so you can go for it and give it a try!