Cake Endeavours

Making a cake for my dad is always easy.  He is not picky, he loves his desserts.  But I know he loves cheesecake and chocolate.   I made the cheesecake in my Instant Pot using this  recipe .  It's very easy and fool proof.  I decorated it with various chocolate goodies from the Bulk Barn. Cake: 7" Triple Chocolate Cheesecake

Celebrating my good friend Suzanne with our Friday night group!  Carrot cake is her favourite so of course that's what she was getting.  I was happy to get to use one my cake stands instead of a cakeboard but it is harder to decorate around it than I remembered!  Suzanne is an amazing artist so I tried to make the icing look like a swirl of colour! Cake: 6" 3-layer carrot cake with cream cheese icing

This is one of my favourite cakes to make.  And this was a big one!  The cake toper was done using my Cricut machine and cardstock. I used a stabalized whipped cream icing for the filling so it's not as sweet as my regular buttercream icing.  I also added extra Oreo cookies chunks between the layers. Cake: 10" 2-layer cookies and cream cake with whipped cream icing

One thing that I love about getting cake requests is that I never know what theme I'm going to be doing.  I love that it takes the decision making away from me.  I do love when I get a theme and can run with it.  For this cake it was 90s theme with an emphasis on the movie Clueless.  It hurts a little that the 90s is considered retro now.  Ha!  The cake itself reminds me of Saved by The Bell's intro which I watched every Saturday morning.  I had many troll dolls and I think I finally tossed my blockbuster card.  The cake topper I made using my printer and Cricut machine.   Cake: 8 3-layer vanilla with salted caramel filling.

 Celebrated my mom's birthday this weekend along with celebrating Father's Day with my dad.   Cake: 6 2-layer chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and chocolate ganache icing

 The weekend of celebrations continued!  Every few years our mothers' birthdays (same day) fall on Father's Day so it is a big weekend of celebrating crammed in.  Today we celebrate Mr. T's mom's birthday and Father's Day with his dad.  Version 2 of the cake! Cake: 6" 2-layer chocolate cake with whipped cream filling and chocolate ganache

Tonight we got to celebrate Michael's milestone birthday at the bowling alley and I was asked to do the cake.  Michael is a major Bluejays fan so of course that was going to be the theme of the cake.  I pulled out my Cricut machine to make all the decorations.  It was a surprise party and I really think he was surprised.  Sadly, I did not beat Mr. T in the bowling game we played. Cake: 8" 3-layer chocolate cake with strawberry cream filling (not my normal combination as I am not a fan of chocolate combined with fruit, but the birthday boy and guests thought it was great).