Spring Cake

Happy Spring Everyone! It has taken a long time for this season to arrive and generally I am not a big fan of spring (allergies anyone?) but this year I just welcomed it with the cake below. This is my first fondant cake because I have wanted to make fondant for a long time. I would say definitely worth it because the guinea pigs devoured it within an hour.. between 10 AM to 11 AM in the morning... Cake for breakfast anyone?

The cake I used is Lemon Buttermilk cake which I found on Epicurious. It was filled with raspberry cream cheese frosting. Iced with just cream cheese frosting (my own recipe... still perfecting it) and then covered with fondant. The fondant recipe can be found here. I found the cake design on CakeCentral but for the life of me I cannot find the exact link.

Just to give you an idea of the timeline, I made the cake and the fondant on day 1. Then made frosting on day 2 (which sorta bombed... more than in another post) and then on Day 3, made frosting first and then it took me about 2.5 hours to put together the cake: frost the cake, roll out the fondant + cover the cake + cut shapes+ add to cake, make bird and nest :)