Father's Day

Since we were celebrating Father's Day at my aunts house, I thought it would be fun to make a quick cake and a way of experimenting with new flavours and getting feedback quickly from many people. The cake I decided to make was a red velvet cake (the recipe was from an amazing book I got for christmas last year called the Modern Cafe). For the inside filling I decided to make a pineapple reduction and mix it into some italian meringue buttercream. For the outside I was running low on time and just decided to skip the fondant and finish the cake with buttercream.

Bridal Shower

This is a cake I made for my soon to be sister-in-law's bridal shower. The theme was tulips. It was my first time making gumpaste tulips and I can say that they look a lot easier to make then they actually are. I wish that I had made more flowers but I ran out of time and came across the dilemma of the wire I used being too thin which is another story in itself. The cake was delicious. I decided to try something new by making a coconut cake with raspberry Italian meringue buttercream. I also saw a picture online of a cake that was covered in chocolate pieces giving it a sort of "bark" effect and I though that was quite interesting so I tried it out...it was very quick and easy to do, tempering the chocolate took a bit of time but it was worth not having to spend the money on fondant.

Cake Time Total: 3 hours