Arielle's Birthday Cake

Arielle wanted a big extravagent cake with basket weave and flowers so this is what I came up with. It's vanilla cake with strawberries, buttercream and vanilla moistening syrup on the first and third layer of each cake. The center layers have a vanilla meringue disk and sliced strawberries. Those disks are why it looks a little bit wonky. I tried spreading the meringue out with a spatula and didn't get even layers. The next time I tried it (different cake) I piped it and they came out perfect. Live and learn!

I did get creative with this one because she wanted a three tiered cake but we weren't having 150 people over! I used smaller pans than normal but to get the top tier a small enough size and make it look okay I used very clean tuna fish cans!!

Baby Shower Cake

This was my first stacked cake and I was a nervous wreck driving it to the shower! I did get it there safely and in one piece. I was happy with how it turned out and I got to play with a whole bunch of different techniques with the patch work quilt thing I was going for.

The cake was chocolate with bittersweet ganache filling and creme de cocoa flavored moistening syrup (DaVinci's coffee syrups). The frosting was Italian Meringue buttercream.

Castle Cake

Well, for Josh's 8th birthday we did a "Knight" party. You can read all the details on my other blog if you want to know but for here, this is the cake he just knew I could make! I stayed up until 1:00 AM putting those jelly beans on the "turrets!" I don't have a square cake pan so my layers were a wee bit wonky. At some point I hope to get square pans but for now I had to cut apart a 9x13 cake and it just didn't come out very crisp!

Josh didn't even notice. He thought it was great. Later I put the little red "flags" on those naked toothpicks you see on the turrets. I just didn't think to take another picture of it after I did that. :)

Tinkerbell!

This is the birthday cake I made for Gracie's birthday. She wanted white cake with strawberries so I did strawberry moistening syrup, a layer of buttercream and sliced strawberries on the first and third layers. And I did buttercream with a vanilla meringue disk in the center layer on each cake. They were frosted with vanilla buttercream and decorated along the lines of a cake in a book that she saw. We just changed the colors a little bit. She loved it. :)