Belated Domestic Effort

With all the craziness going on in July, I never did get around to making Greg a birthday cake, which was sad because I'd been planning since finding the perfect cake pan almost a year ago. This past weekend I finally got the chance to redeem myself and demonstrate my domestic awesomeness. And yes, even the icing was from scratch:

And of course I had some help with the domestic queen herself, Mom, who needed to test out the black icing to make sure it was appropiate:

Then I went to town with the icing bag, a feat I have never actually mastered. I've iced cupcakes a lot, and done basic icing on cakes, but I've never done actual decorative icing with different tips and colors and an actual design. But for my dear hubby, I would learn:

And here's the final result, despite Blogger's refusal to upload the picture correctly (I finally just embedded it from Flickr, hence the funky size difference!).

Happy belated birthday, honey! Love you!