Cake Endeavours

Always happy to make a cake for a former coworker and friend.  Even it if means working with fondant and edible gold dust!  For the trim around the bottom I used chocolate malt balls that I covered in gold dust.     Cake: 8" two-layer chocolate cake with chocolate filling covered in chocolate fondant.

This was a super fun cake to make for one of my favourite people!  His theme requests are always the best.  I made the McDonald's sign using my cricut machine and I love how it came out.  For the rest of the decorations Mr T kindly went to the drive-through for me to get a happy meal.  Miss E ate the chicken nuggets so the box was empty as was the drink container.  However, the fries were the real deal.  I wasn't worried about them spoiling since they last forever in the wild.  The most challenging part of this cake was getting the icing to the vibrant red it needed, but I succeeded.  Woohoo!  Cake: 6" 3-layer carrot cake with cream cheese filling

I had so much fun making this cake!  To supsend the M&M's bag I stuck a bubble tea straw in the cake and covered it in blue icing then added the M&M's "spilling" out of the bag and all over the cake. The letters I cut out with my Circut machine in vinyl. Cake: 8" 3-layer chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling.

It's hard to believe that 3 years have gone by already since Maria and Dave started their business venture.  This year's celebration cake included a big 3 made out of Rice Krispies.  I love how my friends like to throw in a challenge every so often so I don't get too complacent. For the big 3 I made a double batch of Rice Krispie squares with some orange dye and pressed it into a 9" by 13" pan to cool.  I took a template and steak knife to cut out the 3.  I leveled off the bottom slightly so that it could stand.  Fingers crossed that it stays standing! The cake itself is a two layer 9 by 13 chocolate cake with chocolate filling.  I had once chance to get the logo on centred and completely blew that!  So I added the extra decorations to offset it; to make it look like I meant to do that. I made 6 dozen mini cookies & cream cupcakes covered in orange buttercream icing and dipped in coarse sugar to look like snow. Mr T was kind enoug...

For this cake the request was for a Mike's Hard Lemonade theme and the flavour chocolate mint. First I made the logo along with some "lemon" wedges.  The wedges helped to cover some mishaps with the black fondant! To make this cake I made three 8" round layers of chocolate chocolate chip mint cake.  I then cut each layer in half and stacked them on their sides to make a half can.  In between the layers I filled it with mint buttercream icing.  I had just enough black fondant to cover this cake thankfully. I finished off the ends by painting them silver.  Then I splattered the cake with clear piping gel to make it look like the can was "sweating".

A former coworker asked me to make this cake for a 60th birthday celebration.  I contemplated doing the cake in the shape of a can but then I'd lose a lot of the cake by rounding it out. Instead I went with the logo and painting the cake in silver. This was a 9 x 13 chocolate cake with chocolate filling.  I covered the cake in white fondant; next time I would dye the fondant grey first and then paint it over in edible silver paint.  While the "paint" was drying I dropped the logo on as centred as I could get it in one shot.  For the mountain in the background I took a clean brush and brushed away the silver paint.  The ampersand was supposed to be more centred but I only had one shot and missed! I doubled the recipe to make an anniversary cake for Mr T and I.  :)