Easter Egg Cakes

I made these cakes with Dunkan Heinz's strawberry cake mix and buttercream frosting. I used a tip 21 for everything except for the leaves and I used my mom's leftover royal flowers. Good thing they keep for a long time. I have been wanting to make Easter cakes but all the ideas on the internet look more complicated that I was looking for.

Cake Decorating: Course 2

Cakes from course 2! The lattice cake was a little tricky just because the cake was so high. Are my roses getting better? The royal icing flower cake took three weeks to finish since we did a lot of prep work ahead of time. The basket weave wasn't nearly as hard as I though it would be, which means it's definitely a do-again. I bring all my cakes to work and this one was gone real fast.

Just for Fun

Here is a St. Patty's Day cake and some cupcakes I made for fun (and practice) and brought into work. My mom has a recipe for awesome chocolate cake with chocolate sour cream frosting so I took the opportunity to stray from the Wilton course recipes and used it for these.

Here is what I followed for the cupcakes:

http://www.wilton.com/idea/Bear-Hug-for-One