Baking Day part 2, the Cakes!

So this week was spend decorating the cakes that were baked last week!
The first cake decorated was for my friends 21st birthday. She requested a a giant cupcake so thats what she got!

Using cake 1 from the last post... some more dreaded 7 minute frosting, and a couple of hot-pink fondant roses the cake turned out quite well. It was a french vanilla cake with a vanilla filling!

The second cake was for another friends birthday on Monday and it turned out really well!

This was done using cakes 2 and 6 from the last post. He requested a marble cake so the baseball hat was chocolate vanilla marble cake with a chocolate cake base.

The last cake was made for a cancer fundraiser at the university. The annual engineering head shave. The week before the big cut the engineers participating die their hair hot pink hence the colour of the cake.

The cake was a beer cake with a chocolate 'razor'. Made from cakes 5 and 3. More cakes to come!

A Baking Day!

This week was spend baking cakes in my free time... with not a lot of free time to spare I thought that I would get ahead on my baking and bake all the cakes I would need for the Christmas Party season, some upcoming birthdays, and a school event and freeze them.

For this task I needed to break out my mom's mix master. (I almost destroyed it last year making my birthday cake till I got my own mix master!)
With two mix masters and a lot of 'pamed' cake pans I got to work....

On the first hour of baking day my true love gave to me.... 1 vanilla cake, 1 chocolate cake, and a chocolaty marble cake...

On the second hour of baking day my true love gave to me... 1 more chocolate cake....

On the third hour of baking day my true love gave to me.... an extra large beer cake, and 1 more chocolate cake....

On the last hour of baking day my true love gave to me.... 2 white chocolate cakes....

and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!

Phew... thats a lot of cakes... (and a LOT of dirty cake pans!)

I suppose my true love in this case is the combination of two mix masters and my moms oven... to each her own I guess!

And what am I making out of these cakes? You'll have to wait and see!

Cake!

Okay so i've been making these cakes for about a year, so I thought i'd do a post of my previous cakes. Since im new to the blog world these cakes don't come with the 'making of' photos.
Cake #1: Hawaii 5-0!

I made this cake for my Mom's 50th birthday. We were planning a trip to Hawaii and so a Hawaii themed party seemed appropriate! The palm tree leaves just didn't want to harden but they stayed up!


Cake #2: Spaghetti Bolognese.

I made this for my boyfriends dad. The 'sauce' is strawberry jam and the 'meatballs' are Ferrero Rocher Chocolates! The idea came from a great cupcake book my friend gave me for christmas last year, Hello Cupcake. Great book with great tips and ideas!


Cake #3: Iphone

I was really pleased with how this cake turned out, I had a great time making the 'apps'. The cake was made for my boyfriend (an iphone addict) on his 22 birthday. The cake itself was an orange cake soaked in Grand Mariner. It was awesome.

Cake #4: Go Bison!

My Mom got us a new cake pan, shaped like a teddy bear. Well you'll never use a teddy bear cake pan...wrong. We used it three times in a week and a half! This time the teddy bear was turned into a bison to support my cousins hockey team (The Manitoba Bison)! The Bison's curls were chocolate curls (the remainder of the curls used on the Giant Cupcake below!)

Cake #5: Bum ba bum bum BUM!

I made this as a request from a friend. She wanted a bum with a pink thong for her boyfriends 30th birthday. (we added a heart shaped tattoo with his name on it) I was really pleased with the end result, it turned out really well!

Well thats enough of a trip down memory lane for one evening! I have all my cakes on facebook, I think this link will work even if you don't have facebook.