Avery's 4th Birthday Cake

Well, here it is. Avery's 4th birthday cake. She requested the following:

Zebra Stripes
Hearts
Stars
Dora
Littlest Pet Shop

I wasn't sure how everything would come together, but I'm pretty happy with how it came out.

Here are the cakes: I baked 6 devil's food cakes total (2 6-inch, 2 8-inch, and 2 10-inch cakes).

Then I leveled them, which yielded a lot of leftover cake (see my next post to see what I did with it.)

I then stacked them with strawberry filling in between, made buttercream icing for the crumb coating, and made and colored the fondant. I covered the cakes, stacked them and called it a night.

The next morning, I made all the decorations and decorated the cake.

And here's the finished product: