Dad's Birthday Cake

In September, my sister and I decided that we wanted to put my newly found passion for baking to practice by making a cake for our father's birthday.  We decided to try a cake mix that we hadn't tried before and were able to get at our local Michael's.  It was the red velvet cake by the Ace of Cakes and we really liked the flavor of that cake.  Anyhow, this cake was made by stacking two different sized square cakes on top of each other and tinting a cream cheese icing blue.  We then made shapes out of fondant using my new Cricut cake machine.  I have to admit, that was not an easy process and one that I need to know a lot more about fondant about before I ever try to do it again.  Anyhow... you can see our end product below.