Cake Endeavours

I was asked to make a dozen cupcakes for a friend of mine to take to a Christmas dinner.  These cuties are a favourite of mine to make.    Cupcakes: chocolate with vanilla buttercream; fondant leaves and snowman noses

I had an extra layer of cake and icing to use up from Christmas baking.  I knew it would go over well with my Friday night gang and it did! Added some crystal sugar for some sparkle.   Cake: 6" one layer chocolate with chocolate buttercream icing

Mr. T and I joined a bowling league and we are really enjoying it.  This is the first time in all the years we've been together that we've done an organized activity together.  After the first week we promptly purchased our own pair of bowling shoes but were not planning on purchasing our own bowling balls for quite some time.  However, another bowler offered Mr. T one of his that he was no longer using.  This was a very generous offer and he didn't want anything in return, until I offered to bake him his own cake as a thank you.    The cake was greatly appreciated. Cake: 8" 3-layer chocolate cake with chocolate icing

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.