Cake Endeavours

 I haven't had a cake to do in months and this past weekend I have two.  Every time I feel anxious about doing multiple cakes but then once I'm in the middle of it all, I remember how much I like to do it and how fortunate I am that I get to contribute to making someone's day special.   Mason's request for the theme was Among Us, a popular video game.  Fortunately, Miss E as always, was able to educate me on what it was.  I asked what Mason's favourite colour was and his answer was cyan?! He did clarify that it's light blue.   As for the little guys, I have no idea what they are called, I saw on other cakes that they had all kinds of different "hats" on them.  I chose a party hat for the pink one, a sprout for the yellow, a banana peel for the green, and an apple for the blue one.  I think the red one is a dead one? I'm not sure. Ha!  This cake was an 8" two layer vanilla cake with chocolate filling and butter cream icing. ...

 Molly specially requested a galaxy cake for her 7th birthday, which I was happy to do.  It's been so long since I've done a cake, it was so strange to pull everything out of the cabinets and to make sure we had all the ingredients!  Thank you COVID! This was my 2nd time making the mirror glaze.  The first one I did for Miss E's  birthday  back in 2019.  I've learned a few things since then.  Most importantly to put the cake in the freezer for a few hours before you pour the glaze over it.  I did not do this with Miss E's cake and it melted the icing underneath a bit.  The glaze thinned out showing some of the chocolate icing.  This time the glaze set perfectly.  Now, it's still a crazy messy process but well worth it.   This was an 8" three layer chocolate cake with chocolate filling and butter cream icing under the glaze.  The lettering was done cut out with vinyl on my Cricut machine. Molly loved her cake so m...