Vintage American Birthday Cake

This week I received a unique order for a young girl that would be celebrating her 13th birthday. The theme was Vintage American. Not a theme I would guess for a young girl, but I love all things different and unique and was excited to create this cake. 

I knew that the key to making this look vintage was the coloring. I was able to get just the right shade of blue using a mixture of gel icing colors. For the red I used red candy clay since making red fondant can be challenging, plus it tastes delicious. 

I knew I wanted the topper to be amazing and at first considered red, white, and blue stars shooting out of the cake. After living with that idea for a day I decided on one large white chocolate star for the topper with a red 13 on the front of it. It felt more vintage and appropriate for a 13 year old birthday and less like an Independence Day cake. I love the way it turned out!

The bottom tier was vanilla cake and the top was chocolate. Both were filled with Swiss Meringue Butter Cream, iced in chocolate ganache, and covered in fondant. 

Yummy!

 Here is a little behind the scenes shot of my backdrop holder!

I pay him in cupcakes and frosting!