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Courtney didn’t know what she wanted her cake theme to be so I came up with several options: A self-referencing “Birthday Theme,” along other ideas like, “Cross-Country, Pool Party,” “The Finish Line” (a double reference to Cross-Country\/Track, “Graduation,” “A Baking theme”, and a couple others I can’t think of right now.

Ultimately, I merged the pool theme and the birthday theme and came up with “Sliding into 18.” And obviously, I substituted the swimming pool for a giant pile of presents that the birthday girl would “splash” into.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Above are the “pre” presents. I didn’t know how many I would eventually need or want, so I just kept making them while watching The Great British Baking Show<\/em> for overall baking inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creating Courtney<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It took me a long time to figure out how to make a tiny “lifelike” version of Courtney. Let it be known, my first iteration looked like this (see below). Not *terrible*, but far from great. And definitely at least 3x as large as it needed to be. I also had no plan for how to create Courtney’s delicate face, so I followed along with a YouTube tutorial. After about ~5 tries, I came up with something loosely resembling a real person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I moved on to baking and frosting the cakes. Here I am deep in thought trying to remember how to cold carve buttercream. Tricky, to say the least. And it’s not the most flattering shot of me, but, I suppose this *is* what I look like. So be it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “18” topper was also made from fondant<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Aftermath….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above are the “pre” presents. I didn’t know how many I would eventually need or want, so I just kept making them while watching The Great British Baking Show for overall baking inspiration. Creating Courtney It took me a long time to figure out how to make a tiny “lifelike” version of Courtney. Let it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}