Doc McStuffins Birthday Party

It's November already?  Whew...just realized I haven't posted since July!  Oh my, I better get busy.  November brings my granddaughter's birthday.  Last year, she asked for Princess cupcakes.  This year, she asked for a Doc McStuffins cake.  Uh oh....what is a Doc McStuffins?  After some extensive research on Google and Pinterest, I had my plan ready to go.

Time to bake...and bake and bake and bake!  The bottom and middle tiers each had 3 layers.  The bottom had 2 vanilla (white) and 1 chocolate.  The middle tier had 2 chocolate and 1 vanilla.  The top tier, which was sculpted to resemble the character's medical bag, was vanilla with a little food coloring to be pink and purple layers.  I also found some edible glitter for the top of medical bag.

I got my tiers crumb coated.  I debated whether or not to cover all of the tiers with fondant.  I am relatively new to the whole fondant thing, and I didn't want to take a chance, so I just used buttercream.  I did cover the top tier with fondant because of the medical bag decorations.  Next up, molding the characters.  I had gone to Michael's to look for some baking staples and found moldable dough.  Oh my goodness is that they best!  You can check it out here...http://www.michaels.com/Shape-%27n-Amaze-Decorating-Dough/bk1421,default,pd.html?cgid=products-bakeware.

Today was my granddaughter's party.  I took the cake in 3 sections.  I do not trust myself to construct a cake before I leave home and then drive it an hour to its destination.  We get to my daughter's house and I start construction.  My granddaughter is jumping up and down next to me as she sees the characters go on her cake.  I feel like a total rock star.  All those hours of baking and molding were definitely worth it.

Here's the final product...