Cake Endeavours

I was asked to make a cake for the volunteer appreciation dinner for Black Dog Rescue .  I decided on Cookies & Cream for this 10" two layer cake. As the name of the organization is Black Dog Rescue I went with doing black silhouettes of different dogs then adding paw prints in different colours. I did seven different dogs around the cake.  My favourite is the scruffy dog above the logo.

For Miss E's 11th birthday she asked for an ice cream cake and a sleepover party.  Again we are celebrating her birthday late, but this time only a month later.  The sleepover was a great success and so was the cake. I made one layer of chocolate cake in an 8" round pan and sliced it in half.  I lined the pan with cellophane wrap and place one of half of the cake back in the pan.  I softened a litre of vanilla ice cream and mixed in chopped up Oreo cookies and Skor bits then spread it over the cake.  I placed the second half over the ice cream and covered in cellophane.  The cake was kept in the freezer until we were about to serve it. When we were ready to serve the cake I covered it in chocolate ganache, whipped cream and Oreo cookies.  Miss E loved her cake!

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".

Krumbs  asked me to decorate some Halloween cookies for them earlier this month and in turn they gave me enough cookies for Miss E's  class and the left over icing. Even with only having to do the decorating it took me several hours to do 3 dozen!

Owen is one awesome kid and I love doing a cake for him.  This year he asked for a video themed cake that was vanilla with strawberry filling. I had to go retro with Pacman.  This was an 8" 2 layer cake.  For the filling I cut the strawberries down to all the same size, placed them on the first layer and filled in all the spaces with whipped cream.  I wish I had remembered to take a picture of the cake when it was cut. Oh well!

The wedding was at the most beautiful venue;  Hernder Estate Wines .  Our ride out the estate was more eventful than I would have liked though!  I have never been so stressed out delivering a cake. For this cake I made a 2 layer 10" round pumpkin cake with cream cheese filling; a 3 layer 8" round lemon cake with cream cheese filling' a 4 layer 6" round with two layers of pumpkin and two layers of lemon.  The bride and groom are keeping the top tier for future so it has both flavours.  I also made a 10" square slab cake of pumpkin and one of lemon.  I had the cake all ready the night before to ensure it was nice and cold for the drive out to St. Catharines.  As it was covered in buttercream the cake couldn't travel in pieces.  In hindsight I should never have put the cake on the stand until we got to the venue and I should have added a 3 layer to the bottom tier. This was a family wedding that we were going to and Miss E was going up with m...

This cake was booked over a year ago. I had to go searching for the original paper with the details on it when it came time to make the cake and cupcakes. Mr T delivered the cake and 8 dozen cupcakes tonight to  Krumbs  for the wedding tomorrow.  I left a space on the top of the cake so that they could place the cake topper on without hurting any of the flowers. The bottom tier is actually an 8" Styrofoam dummy.  It was my first time covering a Styrofoam dummy.  It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.  This made the cake top heavy!  The 6" top tier is a two layer chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream filling. Congratulations Jarrod and April!