Turtles and Flowered Cakes

In my BYU-Idaho cake decorating class, we were instructed to come up with our own designs for our first two cakes. This is what I came up with.

This was my very first cake where we were given specific requirements that needed to be included on our cake. I really like the way that I was able to get the icing nice and smooth and the border fairly even for a first attempt.


This was a practice cake that I made for my brother and sister-in-law who were pregnant. My brother always joked when we asked if it was a boy or a girl that it was going to be a turtle, so this was specially made for them. I thought the turtles came out really cute on this cake.