More Cake Please!!!

Here are a variety of cakes I made in the last couple years - for different occasions.

This one is the Tunnel of Fudge chocolate cake - it's chocolate cake with a middle layer of chocolate fudge - it's really rich for the true chocolate lover... I like to decorate a cake with nuts and fruit - strawberries are a personal favorite of mine.

As you can see - more strawberries - the more the better - yummy - here we have a cake with a delicious cream cheese frosting - strawberries and cream cheese frosting pair very well!

Another strawberry! This cake just looks like one. The "seeds" are made using skittles and the leaf is made using starbursts (a taffy type of candy) -- I think I made this one for my daughter's 2nd birthday.

This is a different kind of a cake - because it's an American-style cream cheese cake - one of my personal favorites - Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake. The first time I had it was from the Cheesecake Factory - a very popular restaurant in the U.S. - after that experience I was sold on cheesecake because truthfully I never really liked it - but this cake is the bomb!

This is a very tasty, Southern-style cake. It's called Kentucky butter cake - and it is very, very buttery. It has then a light layer of icing on top and again, what better than to serve it with fresh fuit and a few walnuts!

Layered Cakes with Props!

I recently made a couple different layered cakes. One for my daughter's fourth birthday and one for a friend's baby shower/birthday.

My daughter requested a barbie princess cake - but I think she had no idea she was getting an actual barbie doll in the cake. This is a popular design - one that my own mother made for me growing up. Of course, Wilton has a special cake pan especially for this type of cake - I decided to make it a four layer cake for her fourth birthday. I made the cake banana bread type - with banana frosting and a yellow marshmallow fondant on top - which is nice to use for this type of cake - it has the appearance of fabric being draped over the cake - and because it's marshmallow fondant - it tastes really yummy.

The cake for my friend's baby shower/birthday was requested to be chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. And I was wondering how can I make that interesting. So, then I came up with having it look like a hot-air balloon basket. And that turned out very cute. Props are especially nice with specialty cakes. The inside layers that were cut out for the basket - made a smaller two layer cake - that went to my friend's husband to eat - he really liked having his own mini personal cake. I also made little clouds to go with the cake - to act as if the basket/balloon was in the air - those little cakes where yummy, too.