Birthday Cake!

As I mentioned previously, it was Matt's 32nd Birthday on the 15th.  For his day, I decided to make a cake for him - a golf themed cake!  I know that we're not supposed to chronicle our 'woe's' when making something, but this cake certainly had some flaws!!  Of course I didn't start even BAKING the cake until 7:30 pm the night before...after we put the baby to bed...not exactly last minute or anything.  The 1st thing that happened was when I was trying to get the cakes out of the pans..they stuck and they ripped!  Ugh!!  So I was immediately having to try and patch the cake with butter cream, because of course I didn't have any more than one cake mix!  (And yes, I've been using boxed cake for my cakes!  Maybe that's the flaw in itself!)

The next problem that I ran into was that my fondant did NOT want to lay smooth on my cake...thus all the wrinkles...and I had it out PLENTY big...so I don't understand why on earth I couldn't get it to lay smooth.  And then of course the weight of the fondant really weighed down my miserable butter-cream'd cakes underneath...making it this sort of round dome instead of looking like a cake!

The last problem was that I thought I had a tip for grass, but I didn't.  I was SORELY disappointed about that one.  I did some make-shift starish grass...although it was not what I wanted.  

Oh, and to top them all off, I didn't get any good pictures of the final product!  We took pictures, but didn't have the memory card in the camera!!!  UGH!  

Matt was very excited about the golf bag...which turned out good.  Here it is:

Here it is with the candles lit: