Early Cakes

These cakes are cakes that were made before I had taken any of the wilton classes. The first one I did was a monkey cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I was 10 days out from abdominal surgery and it was very hard for me to stand for very long. Therefore, this cake took me 2 days to decorate. Later I learned that you can't just use a tub of any old frosting to decorate cakes. By the way, she loved this monkey cake: