You're Going to Want to Steal This Mom's First Birthday Tradition

I can't stand the idea of a whole cake going to waste, but I want something a little more exciting than a cupcake. Plus, I like to pull out my long-ago cake decorating skills (in high school, I took a cake-decorating class with my mom, and then I frosted some 10 million cakes for Cold Stone Creamery when I was in high school and college).