P's birthday is the same as O's, but her party was scheduled for one week later. She decided she wanted to go the monkey route, so she and I sat down to discuss what her cake would look like by browsing Pinterest. This decision happened almost immediately, to my surprise, and so then I set about planning how I would execute the idea.
The birthday girl wanted two cakes--one was essentially a smash cake, though I made it bigger than that. And, of course, chocolate. I used leftover frosting from T's cake for the middle of the mini cake and chocolate for the big monkey.
Then I finished up the small cake first. This took longer than I wanted, partly due to trying to keep the monkey 'smooth' and getting the ears attached.
I tackled the bigger cake shortly after getting the eyes on the little one, and decided to go with a fuzzy monkey. This one went much faster!
The ears were tricky on this one, too, but having to be less picky about smoothness helped.Plus, I added the cake before adding the main frosting layer, which also helped.
Once finished, I gave a sneak peek on Instagram and then had to figure out how to store them until the next day.
P wanted to do candles in 'her' cake--the little one--so we let her add them and then it was time to sing and eat cake!
We had lots of kids, so we did small slices. If anyone wanted seconds, they could have them, as it turned out we had plenty of cake.
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