Cake Endeavours

Joy and Eason were having a combined birthday party so we went with vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. For Eason I did super hero themed cupcakes.  I have no idea if they are Marvel or DC.  I don't keep track.  Eason was happy and that's what matters. For Joy's cupcakes I did L.O.L. dolls.  Miss E is past this stage so I have no idea what they are really.  They look super cute.  :)

I was thrilled to be able to make this cake for one of my childhood friend's mom's birthday.  The request was for a chocolate cake with quilting the main theme as her mom is a quilter also that she was into fall colours and flowers.  This gave me lots to work with. The cake was a 3 layer chocolate 8" cake with chocolate filling and covered in butter cream.  The "quilted" blanket was originally larger and I wanted it to drape further down the cake but the fondant kept cracking and didn't look right, so I shortened it and covered up some of the mess with spools of yarn. My arms got a real workout dying the different colours of fondant.  I love fall colours but they are pretty dark and can take a lot of dye to get the colour you desire.  In the end all the colours turned out nicely and the birthday girl loved her cake.

Ilene, a very good family friend and my father-in-law share the same birthday and as we were tagging along for the birthday dinner I thought I would bring a cake as a suprise.  I figured as long as it was chocolate Bob, my FIL, wouldn't care how it was decorated.  So, I decorated toward Ilene's taste.  The cake was a 3 layer 8" chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling. Ilene has always been so kind in commenting on my cakes on Facebook and how she wished she could have one for her birthday one day.  She even mentioned over dinner longingly that maybe one day she would get one of my cakes for her birthday.  I was SO glad I brought her one and she was delighted!  Of course Bob was good and didn't complain about the decorations. :)