Goodbye 2011 Part 4 - baby shower

Commissioned I was, to bake some baby shower cakes for my oh so lovely colleague. I enlisted the help of my best friend and proceeded to make little baby animals and a mummy animal to go with each. As usual, we laughed the whole time, raged at the non conforming fondant parts and had a ton of fun. Here is a lil baby giraffe all on its own:

Animals drying on toothpicks - that other styrofoam sphere came in handy! Although she watched me toil on the lions - yes 2 lions!! Once I had finished, she told me that baby lions do not have manes. Well you could've told me that whilst I was making them!!!!

Baked chocolate cake... bit thin ay?!

I cut the cake in half, stuck the pieces together with some chocolate butter cream, iced the edges and stuck on chocolate shards and iced the cake! Then added the animals and voila!

Check out mumma zebra's toupee! We laughed for like an hour about that one!!! Yes, there is only one elephant. Don't ask!