Quilty Birthday Cake

My oldest granddaughter Sydney will be 14 on Monday, and I was delighted when her Mom told me she requested my cookies as her birthday treat.

Since she didn't choose a cake, I decided to make her a quilty one. I found this online pattern, which is from Lori Holt's Quilty Fun. Although I don't own the book and the pattern only included cutting instructions, it was easy to figure out how to sew the pieces together.

I made some minor changes to the pattern. The cake consists of two layers and a "filling", but my fabric had a natural "chocolate" filling, so I made a solid piece instead of three.

I added 1/4 inch to the top part of the pattern to fit a "flame" for the candle. After trying embroidery and fabric, I wasn't satisfied with the look of the flame. My husband suggested I use various colors of embroidery threads to make a sparkler effect, and I love the way it turned out. Thanks Honey!

I outline-quilted the cake, stand, and candle and then did an overall wavy line quilting to emulate party streamers.

I blogged about these pumpkin cookies with praline icing on one of my older blogs, and they are still a family favorite. On Monday I'll take Sydney a batch of them on a clear serving plate and set them on top of her quilty cake.