Cake Endeavours

 Mr. T and I made a three layer 8" cookies and cream cake for this creation.  This is Mr. T's favourite cake to make as it is super easy.  The most tedious part is chopping up the Oreo cookies to go into the batter.  All other ingredients go into the bowl all at once.  Normally, you start with butter, sugar and eggs; separate wet and dry ingredients, then alternate adding them into the mixing bowl.  Not with this recipe which makes it goes so much faster.   Now, for the decorating.  The cake was covered in butter cream icing and smoothed out.  A chocolate ganache dripping over the top.  The fun part was adding all the chocolate.  I love the freestyle of decorating in this way.  It's lots of fun.  Mr. T and Miss. E were happy to eat the leftover chocolate that didn't make it on to the cake.  To fill in holes I added chopped Oreos.  For the topper I designed it and cut it out on my circut machine.  I used vinyl for the lettering and black cardstock for the backing.  Viny

 This weekend we celebrated Mother's Day by visiting outdoors at each of our parents' place.  Mr. T's parents recently moved into a condo so we had no back yard to visit outside in.  Fortunately, the condo has a beautiful piece of green space that we can bring out lawn chairs out to and visit now that the weather is so much nicer.  At my parents' they have a big back yard and deck that we can visit outside in.  It was wonderful to be able to get together with both mothers (and dads too).  We brought them some chocolate cupcakes for a little treat. Sprinkled with some gold sugar for bling. 

It's another COVID birthday for Logan.  No one saw that they'd be going through a 2nd birthday like this, but that's ok, we can still have cake!   Logan's cake is a 6" 3 layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing coated in a galaxy mirror glaze.  I'm still pleasantly surprised when it turns out so nice like this.  I borrowed the Apple logo and added a 15 inside for the cake topper. Normally I would have made a half recipe for this cake but Mr. T reminded me that Mother's Day is in a few days and if we did a full recipe we could make cupcakes as well for our moms.  He's pretty proud of this idea.  Stay tuned for next blog post.

 Elsie's 1st birthday didn't get to be the big event that everyone hoped for; that will come later in the summer when we're hopefully out of captivity!  Instead we went with a "smaller" cake for Elsie to smash.  You still need an amazing cake no matter the size of the celebration.  The cake was a 3 layer lemon with cream cheese icing, a lot of cream cheese icing.  I made just enough to cover the cake in rosettes.  Phew!  The "one" cake topper I designed and cut using my Cricut machine. Mr. T and I delivered the cake and were able to see the birthday girl saying hi to everyone from their front porch.  Happy 1st Birthday Elsie!