Cake Endeavours

 A fun cake to make on a cold wintry day to remind me of summer.  This was a two layer 6" cake with homemade strawberry filling and covered in almond flavoured buttercream icing.   Doing a cake for a friend that lives in the building is great for pick up/delivery.   Update:  Her mum has been enjoying a piece of cake with every meal.  Love that!

Lemon cake is currently a popular choice and I am not complaining.  I love the smell of lemon zest and lemon juice.  It is so refreshing and so sunny! A co-worker of Mr. T asked me to make this cake to celebrate her mom's birthday.  This was a 6" two layer cake with lemon butter cream icing.  This time after slicing the lemon for the top I patted the excess lemon juice off of the slices and let them dry out for a while so that lemon juice wouldn't drip down the side of the cake.     I had bought a box of Ferrero Raffaellos and decided that these would look great on this cake. For the drip I took some leftover icing and added yellow dye then melted it for a few seconds in the microwave.