Wall-e cake for Andre-w

Andrew is three! That blows my mind. I just realized was born the same year that I graduated University....now he will serve as a constant reminder of just how old I'm getting. This sucks. Luckily the kid has decent taste in cakes. The Pilon babies (who are now grown and would probably frown if you called them a baby to their face) love their wall-e - so here's the cake for Andrew's third!

Long Time No Cake

Be not bewildered, there were many cakes over the holidays. I refuse to believe it's been two months since I put up anything. It's still baffles me how we got to here. There isn't much to write so it's going to be a short story and a couple pictures of cakes.

Here's a pic of Jenna's 30th Birthday cake. White cake inside that was dyed hot pink. Raspberry filling. Sparkly bits on top. What's not to love?

Bacardi Cake (Sheena's Cake for Robert)

Here is the first cake ever purchased. Ever. This also means that I was far too anxious and critical throughout the whole process (beware anyone who stepped into the kitchen Friday evening). Sheena wanted a Bacardi themed cake for her boyfriend Robert. Overall, it was a pretty simple theme. Execution was a little more difficult. The bottom tier was no issue; chocolate cake with butter cream icing. The upper tier was black forest and caused the majority of the issues. Cherry filling is slippery and difficult to build on and seemed to have declared me its sworn enemy. The cake might have been too moist too... but I still maintain that the cherry filling was being unnecessarily antagonistic. Lastly, do you know how hard it is to make red fondant? Two pots of fondant dye later, it was a hot pink mess. Thanks to the best boyfriend in the world for making two fondant dye runs & doing the mixing. He is the very best ever. Also, he braved my psychotic rants about everything.

I tried cutting out the Bacardi bat out of fondant, but that's obviously a ridiculous idea which failed miserably. Trying to cut detailed shapes out of fondant (and not letting them dry for upwards of a day or two) will generally result is a disfigured version of what you intended. I resorted to painting the bat with "no-taste" black fondant dye. If you mix the dye with a little bit of water, you can use it much like water colours. Overall, the painted-bat was a success. It's deformed fondant-cut brother is now smooshed in the compost. Serves him right!

Chocopocalyspe!

For Libra Birthday this year, the cake of choice was the CHOCOPOCALYPSE. My mother in common-law has a policy of chocolate, only chocolate. Don't even think about adding something to that chocolate and ruining it. This is well suited to my need to take things too far. Thusly, I am introducing the Chocopocalypse. Chocolate cake, Chocolate icing and brownies on top. The smell of it alone was amazing. The next project I am working on is the Chocopocalypse diffuser for the home. Amazing.

It was only a two layer cake since there were only 6 of us, but it still lives up to it's name.

What the flock!?

It was New Zealand Father's day not so long ago. Naturally I must stereotype NZ with cake. I ran out of normal cupcake paper cups, so please excuse the Dora. Thanks to Don for the photos- Now you can see what my cupcakes look by night and day :)

For my love

Fraser likes orange a lot. It's a compromise. We don't have orange walls, he gets an orange cake. This was my first attempt at different flavours. It was a chocolate cake with a chocolate hazelnut filling. Bit too rich, but it was well received.