I’ve known Calvin’s dad, John, since middle school. I made his and Nina’s wedding cake, their baby shower cake, gender reveal cupcakes, and now goodies for Calvin’s first birthday! He had a first birthday photo shoot a couple of weeks ago, but the real celebration happened over the weekend.
Calvin loves the show Pocoyo, so that was the theme of his party. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of it until Nina emailed me, so I had to do some research.
She came up with this design for the main cake:
And this one for his smash cake:
Cake flavors:
Main cake – almond cake with raspberry filling and almond buttercream
Smash cake – almond cake with almond buttercream
For the main cake, Pocoyo and the “1” were made out of fondant. Like always I used a milkshake straw for my central support in the figurine and molded the rest around that. The “1” was a flat piece that I attached to a lollipop stick. Nina provided the bunting and balloons.
For the smash cake, I started with a jumbo cupcake and iced it to look more like small cake. The baby bird topper was molded by hand out of fondant.
