ladybug cake and cupcakes

so like i mentioned in my previous post, i got the honor of doing haley-bug's 1st birthday cake! and i am so excited about how they turned out. i love looking at different examples on the internet and then kind of combining my favorite aspects of what i find to make my own creation. and nothing could have made me happier then the way these turned out.





i got the idea for the ladybug bodies from my soccer cake, i just used regular cake mix this time and then made the batter red, because everyone knows that ladybugs have red bodies :) the rest of it was super easy. i used oreos for the dots, but i took the cremes out of the middles. and i used icing to put them on where i wanted so they would stay until i could get the rest of the icing on. next i had a few extra cupcakes so i used those for the lady bug head. i also attached this with icing so it would stay better too. after i was happy with the spot and head placement it was time to start the rest of the body. i put 3 strips of stars right down the middle and then filled the rest in with red. it was pretty easy. and the reason i put the spots on the cake before the icing was to that the cookies would be even with the icing and the icing around the cookies would keep it in place better.






now the cupcakes, while even easier, took much longer. i placed a small half circle on the top half of the cupcake, i then filled the rest in with red and placed a line of black down the middle. i then used chocolate chip morsels for the spots, just placed those in upside down. but since it was close to midnight as i was finishing up, my wonderful husband stepped up to help me. i think he has as much fun doing some of this stuff as i do :)