Happy Birthday, Savannah!

Savannah is nine now. Yes, nine. I can barely believe it myself. She got a whole new bedroom set which I had refinished for her (see previous post). If she was not already spoiled enough with that, I also made her a cake. IT WAS FUN!!
She wanted it to look like ice cream, so I made a whole bunch of ice-cream-scoop-sized cake balls.
I coated them with different flavors of melted chocolate chips. I started with white and I was not sure how things were going to turn out since I was trying to dip them like chocolates (in something that really doesn't count as chocolate at all). I switched tactics and poured the melted chips over the top and pushed it down the sides and it really gave the drippy ice cream look I was going for.
I added some small chunks of cookie dough and some mini chocolate chips and ended up with four flavors of ice cream: cookie dough, mint chocolate chip, vanilla, and chocolate.
After piling it all up in a big dish I poured the remaining chocolate over the top to give it a "hot fudge" topping. It was quite tricky trying to stick the candles in the spaces between scoops, but nothing lit on fire that wasn't supposed to, so I think we did pretty well in the end.
She had a few small gifts in addition to the furniture, just so she'd have something to actually unwrap.
Happy birthday to my sweet girl!