Mini Christmas Cakes, Take 2 and Other Goodies

On to my 2nd co-worker who decided on 25 chocolate flavoured mini cakes, 2 pans of lemon bars, a pan of salted caramel bars and a "pine cone" cake.

I had just enough gold shimmer spray and red shimmer pen for this order. I sent Mr. T on a mission to get more gold spray. It was no where to be fond at this time of year. I'm not sure what I am going to do for the third order but I will figure that out later on. Ha! The chocolate cakes were a lot harder to cover in a crumb coat than the vanilla. Good grief. They looked like globs of cookies and cream ice cream. I did manage to bring my time down to just over an hour to cover the 25 in fondant.

This cake was an 8" two layer chocolate cake. This went together pretty smoothly. Mr T delivered these out to the west end and of course picked himself up a Slurpee on his way back.

On to the next cake...

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