Baking Up Yum: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cake and Cupcakes

This weekend I had the pleasure of making a cute cake and cupcakes for a sweet 3 year old's birthday. He wanted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and they wanted a small cake and cupcakes. The cake was a 3 layer 8 inch round chocolate cake with butter cream and fondant, and the cupcakes were also chocolate but with cream cheese butter cream and fondant accents. The cutters for the cupcakes were from JB Cookie Cutters on Etsy - if you ever need any, they are WONDERFUL to deal with. They were tons of fun to make, in fact, I still remember what I was doing when the VERY FIRST Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon that came out in 1987. (27 years ago... Wow, that makes me feel OLD!) I was headed to a skate party for a friend's birthday and I was a little late because I was hooked and had to finish watching it! Well... I never thought I would be making a cake with these guys, but here it is:

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