Cake Endeavours

I really like to combine fondant and paper when decorating a cake.  Generally it's a great time saver and keeps costs down for everyone.  Also, the paper decorations can be kept as keepsakes or for the kids to play with and repurpose  For this cake, I did all the generic decorations in fondant and the Octonaut characters I printed off, laminated and trimmed to go on the top of the cake  The "Nicola" topper was provided my Nicola's mom to add to the cake.  Nicola's favourite characters are Peso, the penguin and Tunip, the vegimal (according to Wikipedia!)   This was an 8" three layer lemon cake with raspberry filling.  The combination is so good!

Olivia's mom is an amazing paper crafter and one of the cutest lines of paper and supplies is Doodlebug.  I have a lot of Doodlebug in my collection.  It's Olivia's favourite and so I did the decorating in Doodlebug style.  She also has two adorable cats that she loves so I added them in with their own winter hats and scarfs.  Olivia also likes lollipops and hearts which I added as toppers. This was an 8" three layer vanilla cake with buttercream icing covered in fondant.  We delivered the cake to my favourite scrapbooking store,  Younique Scrapbook  in Guelph, which of course I had to do some shopping afterward.    

 I was so excited to do this cake for a good friend's wedding.  Wedding cakes are so much fun to do.  I love being able to deliver it to the venue and setting it up.  This set up was super easy, especially when there was no casualties in the travel. Thank goodness as it's been over two years since since I'd done a two tiered cake. The bottom tier was an 8" three layer pumpkin cake with cream cheese icing.  The top tier was a 6" three layer lemon cake with cream cheese icing.  Both were covered in fondant.  The purple flowers were made a few days in advance to allow them to dry out.   Congratulations Tara and Jamie!  We are so happy for you both!

 We had over half the cake left from Miss E's birthday cake and we planning on serving the rest to my in-laws for dessert when they came for dinner tonight to celebrate my father-in-laws birthday.  I decided to switch it up a bit and change the decorations to make it less obvious that it was left over cake.  As long as it's chocolate cake my father-in-law is good!   It also helps that this cake gets better after a few days in the fridge. I don't know why, but we all enjoy it!