Cake Endeavours

I can't believe Brooklyn is 10 years old.  I am so glad that we were able to have a social distance dinner to celebrate this milestone with her and the family. I made the Perfect Chocolate Cake, 3 layers of chocolate cake with whipped cream in between and covered in chocolate fudge icing.  I had left over icing from the other two cakes that I was able to use for decoration on this cake.  The "ten" was cut out from gold card stock using my Cricut machine. Happy Birthday Brooklyn!

One of my first cakes I made for Miss E was using a heavy duty cupcake shaped pan.  That was over 10 years ago.  I used the pan once and several years later I donated it to Value Village.  Fast forward 10 years, I have a request for a cupcake cake. I contemplated ordering a silicon pan but decided I would make one from the pans I already had and use on a regular basis. For this vanilla cake I used three 6" pans for the base and half of the baseball Wilton pan to form the top.  The cake was assembled with salted caramel icing,  The bottom had no dye and top I dyed it teal. To top off the cake I added some edible decorations topped with a "cherry".  For the lettering on the board, it was cut out of vinyl using the Cricut Explore Air.

For Lindsay's 40th birthday I knew I wanted to do a Jem themed cake as she is truly outrageous! The cake was four 6" layers alternating between vanilla and chocolate with salted caramel icing as filling.  I covered the cake in vanilla buttercream then added dabs of purple, pink and orange to copy the colour gradient in the Jem logo.  The logo I printed and laminated.  Finished it off with 40 stars. Happy Birthday Linds!  Enjoy your new decade.

During this crazy time it's so refreshing to be able to do something fun and to focus on something different, even if it is only for an afternooon. The request for this cake was a 8" vanilla tier and a 6" chocolate tier covered in vanilla buttercream.  For the topper I used gold cardstock and cut it out using my Cricut Explore Air.  I don't have much fondant right now to make flowers so I used silk ones that I had on hand to decorate.

Logan is one of the lucky ones to celebrate a birthday during this pandemic and of course I jumped at the chance to help out by making a cake for him.  He's come a long way from Pablo and the Backyardigans.  Ha! This cake was a 6" three layer chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream icing.  I don't have much fondant right now and I'm not sure when I will be able to buy some more, especially black!  Instead for the decorations, I printed off the logo and funny sticky note quotes from the series. This way Logan can keep them if he'd like. Happy 14th Logan!