Kid Designed Birthday Cake

Every year I make my daughters special birthday cakes based on what they love.
Peppa Pig.
Unicorns.
Anything their heart desires.
(HERE is a look at some of Ellie's cakes)
This year my little artist Ellie requested an elephant cake.
And since I make the cakes based on what they love I had the most "DUH!" realization.
Why don't I have Eloise design her own cake?

I pulled up a Google image search of elephant faces and had her draw different variations for me to choose from.

I did an instagram story to see what elephant everyone thought was best,
and this little guy had the most votes along with the elephant with stars in the picture above

So I decided I would make that elephant with stars added around him.
A nice mash up of the two.
Next was taking it from paper to plate.
(If you are interested on details of making shaped cakes from a complete amateur standpoint I wrote about it HERE)

I did the shaping of the cake, frosting, and the sugar paste on the actual elephant,
but I let Ellie cut out stars to add to the sides and she was SO stoked.