I absolutely love the Best Of Pixar Cricut Cartridge!

Hi!  Hope everyone had a great weekend I know i did.  Another cake this weekend -Yay!  Well I actually baked all day on Saturday because I contributed to a local bake sale that is involved with our school system.  I made a red velvet cake with butter cream icing since I sent the last one to work with my husband and never got to try it.  I also tried something different this week.  I bought a cake decorating set and decided to try to do a scallop decoration for the edges.  Wow, that was hard and didn't exactly come out right but it was my first time so...I need practice.  I made a finding Nemo cake.  I made the nemo at 4 and a half inches and he cake out huge.  I love the movie Finding Nemo.  It always reminds me of my eight year old son. He is at the age where he wants more independence and I am sometimes too over protective with him.  Its so hard to let them do things when you are scared.

Anyway, making this cake was fun and easy.  Three colors orange, black, and white. I used Wilton fondants again. This time I mixed my own colors for the orange.  First I cut out the black back ground.  That was the easy part.  Next I cut out the orange part.  Parts of nemo are very intricate so I decided to try a tip that someone mentioned to me about putting the mat with the cutout fondant on it in the freezer for a couple of minutes and it worked great.  It made it alot easier to get off the mat.  Next i cut out the white eyes and stripes and put them on and it was done.  I imagine that I could have made this cake alot better.  Maybe I could have sprayed the background with a blue color spray, and made Nemo smaller and added some other characters, or even shells.  As usual my kids and husband LOVED IT.  This is a great cartridge, especially if you are thinking about making a child's birthday cake.