90th Birthday Cake for Mom

I made this 90th birthday cake for my mom. I have so much fun making cakes… and towards the end, I get SO nervous! Will it go together like I think? Will it be good enough? Will it be liked?

This cake has a 12″ round bottom tier (2 cakes sliced to 4 layers). The middle tier is 9″, and the top tier is 6″. I enjoy making Swiss meringue buttercream frosting, so it is all over this cake.

Now the fun begins…

90th Birthday Cake Assembly Steps

Earlier in the month, I made gum paste flowers and a fondant “Mom” in a chair for the top (she even has a hat on, which my mom wears often). They were left to ‘dry’ out till decorating day.
I placed pink ribbon around the bottom of each tier.
I put a dowel in the center of the cake to help keep it together, as I did have to transport it 40 miles.
Placing all the flowers was fun, but I did have to change the placement of some of them when the top tier wouldn’t fit due to the flowers on the second tier sticking in the way.
The top tier was topped with my Mom in her chair and more flowers.
Then, for fun I did something I had never done before. I added those darling little fairy lights around each tier and lit the whole thing up!

My mom cried when she saw the cake, and everyone oohed and aahed, so I let out a big sigh of relief!

I love looking through all the cakes on this site and I get so inspired by them. It would be my hope that this cake might inspire someone to try something new. I am not by any means a professional. I spend lots of fun time watching how to videos on YouTube!

90th Birthday Cake Assembly Steps

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