Graduation Cake for Alex

Here's a third grad cake for someone in my St. Paul's family. I'm so honoured to be asked to do these cakes! I love being able to help celebrate these special moments. Alex is graduating from grade 8. He requested vanilla flavour with buttercream icing. Though I did add salted caramel icing as filling for some extra flavour.

I love how the two tones of icing worked out. Though the icing was not cooperating very nicely in wanting to smooth out the way I wanted. Grrr! I used edible gold leaf for the first time for the decoration around the cake. It was fun to work with; using a dry paint brush helped a lot.

Mr. T and I took this cake out to Bowmanville tonight and then swung by to say hello to my parents. For a Thursday night the traffic was pretty nuts! The drive back was smooth at least. Got back before lane closures for construction work.

Congratulations Alex!

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