My sister in Arizona saw my new cake blog and sent me this photo of a cake I did for my niece, Ella's 2nd birthday, the summer before we moved to Georgia. My sister had found a picture in a magazine of this adorable ladybug cake, and I just copied it. (Again with the RED icing!)
The dots on the ladybug are Junior Mints, and the lines were some kind of chocolate Twizzler or some other awful candy. The curly yellow antennae are actually candles. Here's the sweetness blowing out her candles: