Peter Rabbit First Birthday Cake

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Hazel’s Birthday Cake has been by far my absolute favorite cake to make to date.

Initially, I was planning on doing a three tier cake, where the top tier would have a hand painted image of Jemima Puddle-Duck, similar to the hand painted Peter Rabbit from the middle tier.

I wanted Hazel’s birthday to have a touch of femininity and I figured the best way to do it was to include a lot of florals. For that reason, I decided that the bottom tier would be full of tiny, delicate and dainty flowers. It took me just over 8 hours to make and attach each one of the 600 flowers. I used the Wilton Fondant Imprint Mat Floral set (you can find it on my amazon storefront under “Baking Essentials”) to add a little dimension to each flower. I then brushed them with Fancy Sprinkles Champagne Rose Gold Prism Powder to add a subtle shimmer (I’ve linked it at the end of this post).

As it usually happens when you are planning an event, I left the middle tier to the very last minute, so I had to scramble to hand paint (free hand) the Peter Rabbit. I used Wiltons gel food coloring to create a washed out water color effect, added a fondant fence, and topped it off with a couple of floral details.

The cake was looking like it was missing a little something, so I made a fondant cake topper using a #1 cookie cutter. I used a silicone mold to spell out HAZEL using fondant.

The beautiful paper block letters spelling O N E right under the cake were made by the amazingly talented Creations by Jazzmine Rose, she is a local Montreal mompreneur and you can find her on Instagram.

Here are some useful links for you to find the items I used to make this cake:

Amazon Canada

Amazon USA

Fancy Sprinkles – You can use promocode SUGARANDSTORYTIME to get 15% off your entire purchase.

Please note that I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases on Amazon and Fancy Sprinkles.

What is your favorite thing about this cake? What would you have done differently? Tell me in the comments, I’d love to know.