Cake Endeavours

 I haven't had a cake to do in months and this past weekend I have two.  Every time I feel anxious about doing multiple cakes but then once I'm in the middle of it all, I remember how much I like to do it and how fortunate I am that I get to contribute to making someone's day special.   Mason's request for the theme was Among Us, a popular video game.  Fortunately, Miss E as always, was able to educate me on what it was.  I asked what Mason's favourite colour was and his answer was cyan?! He did clarify that it's light blue.   As for the little guys, I have no idea what they are called, I saw on other cakes that they had all kinds of different "hats" on them.  I chose a party hat for the pink one, a sprout for the yellow, a banana peel for the green, and an apple for the blue one.  I think the red one is a dead one? I'm not sure. Ha!  This cake was an 8" two layer vanilla cake with chocolate filling and butter cream icing. ...

 Molly specially requested a galaxy cake for her 7th birthday, which I was happy to do.  It's been so long since I've done a cake, it was so strange to pull everything out of the cabinets and to make sure we had all the ingredients!  Thank you COVID! This was my 2nd time making the mirror glaze.  The first one I did for Miss E's  birthday  back in 2019.  I've learned a few things since then.  Most importantly to put the cake in the freezer for a few hours before you pour the glaze over it.  I did not do this with Miss E's cake and it melted the icing underneath a bit.  The glaze thinned out showing some of the chocolate icing.  This time the glaze set perfectly.  Now, it's still a crazy messy process but well worth it.   This was an 8" three layer chocolate cake with chocolate filling and butter cream icing under the glaze.  The lettering was done cut out with vinyl on my Cricut machine. Molly loved her cake so m...

 My cousin Ben turned 30, this year and his amazing girlfriend organized a number of surprises for him during this quarantine.  I offered to make a cake; she recommended a carrot cake cake, which is a family favourite. I found this cool silhouette that totally reminded me of Ben and cut it out on my Cricut machine to use as the cake topper.  We dropped it off to their apartment as a surprise. Ben got a kick out of the topper. 

 I'm so glad we were able to see Joy and celebrate her birthday with her during the small window between lock downs! So glad the cousins got to see each other.  Joy requested a rainbow cake and for it to be chocolate. This was a 3 layer chocolate 6" cake enjoyed by all.  Even leftovers to take home. 

 Mr T's dad turned 75 and we were so heartbroken that we couldn't celebrate together, but we did surprise him with a birthday cake.  A smaller one than usual, but he didn't have to share, well, only with Mr T's mom, if he chose to.  Ha!  Of course, it was chocolate cake with chocolate filling. I found this quirky sign to print off, laminate and add to the front of the cake.   At least we were able to have a short visit from our car to wish him a Happy Birthday!  

 We surprised Ilene with this sweet 6" cake for her birthday as I knew being in lockdown that she needed a special pick me up.   For the balloons I dug out my paper punches to punch them out and added them to some floral wire.

 These types of cakes are so much fun to do.  Over the top goodness!  Especially, when the original plan  was to use airplane size bottles of Jack Daniel's instead of one 300mL bottle.  When Mr T went to the LCBO he was told that they longer sell them, at least as this location, due to high theft.  The next smallest size available was the 300mL bottle; though I doubt the birthday boy was disappointed! This was a 3 layer chocolate 8" cake with Bailey's buttercream topped off with Hershey pieces, mini chocolate chip cookies, Ferrero Rocher and Whoppers sitting on top of the chocolate ganache.