Carnival Cake

Mom, this is mostly for you. And Elysa- since you were asking about the cake. This stupid thing took me a week to make. This was Judith's 30th birthday cake and I was pretty much making it up as I went a long. It took a week because I did it in stages. Made the cookie dough one night, cooked them another, frosted them the third. You get the idea. The cookies which were used as the animals for the carousel and to supplement the cake as we had no idea how many people would be coming to the party. It was a "whimsical" carousel which in reality meant I could not for my life find a horse cookie cutter that was the right size or that I liked (it's possible I only looked in 1 store). These I already had. :)

Then I baked a 2 layer cake, but did not put them together. I used some cake pillars and separator plate to make the carousel pieces and used icing as glue for the "ponies". The decoration is a Meringue Buttercream icing which I found on the Martha Stewart wedding website and the candies are Skittles Gum. I would've loved to decorate it more elaborately, but at this point, I was really done with the cake. :)