Lincoln's 3rd Birthday

For Lincoln's 3rd birthday I made a cake.  I wasn't intending to do anything like this, but a few weeks ago we were looking at someone else's pictures and Lincoln said 'mine dozer cake.'  I told him I would try.  For 3 weeks I looked in every store I went to, for the little toys.  I looked at Walmart, Dollarama, The Great Canadian Dollar Store, Sobeys.  They didn't have them anywhere.  Finally renovations were done in Superstore so I looked there too.  They had them, and they were reasonably priced.  I used a recipe Nicoline told me about for fondant.  It turned out very good.  The only thing I would do differently with it is to cut out some of the icing sugar when adding cocoa for the brown fondant.  It would make it easier to knead and roll.  I made a buttercream type of icing, (shortening and custard whipped) for a filling and decoration.  I used this cake recipe as it has always made a really good cake for me.  I actually made 2 9x13 cakes.  I needed one for the cake and then I knew I would need some cake crumbs for the decorations.  (We also had a church lunch on Sunday and I figured that I could take cake, it would be easy as I had to make cake and icing anyways.)  I used ice cream cones with green icing for a couple of trees.  I used gel food colouring for the first time.  It was a bit different to use, but it wasn't difficult.
Here is the finished cake.  All ready for eating.

Grandpa and Grandma White came to celebrate with us.

Blowing out the candles.

And so, Have a good day all.  

Next I have to come up with an idea for Wesley's cake.

I already have an idea for Elizabeth.