Shopaholic Cake

(Sorry Mom)

I made this cake for my mothers birthday this past weekend. 

Let’s just say… she likes to shop~!

This time the  cake was made from scratch (see Simple Butter Cake recipe) as I wanted a heavier cake to support some of the fondant figures.

The cake is a very simple butter cake with a cream cheese cinnamon filling.

This cake was large.  I used 2 cakes, both in a 12” x 2” deep pan.

I made  my own buttercream icing to crumb coat the cake.

For the decoration, I wanted to show an exhausted shopper after a fulfilling day of shopping.

I started with a comfy chair. This was made out of fondant only.

And of course some shopping bags.  The cake was also covered in pink fondant.

And now for our shopper ( or my mother )

Her hair was put through the garlic press.   Her eyes were holes filled with white fondant. 

But to me, they looked a little too wide open for an over-fatigued shopper, so I fixed that. (hehe)

The half-mast eyelids and gaping mouth pretty much says it all.

Since I was on my own making this cake and it took me hours, there are no more during pictures… so here is the finished cake.

 

Happy Birthday Mom

Toronto Maple Leafs Cake

It was my Honey’s 50th birthday recently, but tonight we are getting together with all his siblings and spouses.

Events with them are always awesome.  We are meeting at restaurant but I’ve decided to make my own cake.

He’s a huge sports fan, so I thought a sports themed cake would be cool.

So let's start at the beginning.  I was very short on time, since this was a last minute decision, so cake mixes just had to do.

I made a Chocolate cake and a French Vanilla..(you just can’t go wrong with those)

While I was waiting for the cakes to bake I mixed up some blue fondant.

I iced between the layers with chocolate icing.

Crumb coat, (or dirty ice) the cake with butter cream or regular frosting.  Refrigerate iced cake for at least 45 minutes.

Cover with white fondant

With some of the blue fondant I traced the number 50 from cut outs that I printed off earlier.

I did the same with the letters for the name. 

( I KNOW there is a better way, but this is the poor mans cut outs)

I added some white fondant sleeves, blue stripes and a neckline.

I also started on this little guy. From a blue blob…

…came a hockey player… that oddly enough started to look a lot like my honey, (giggle!)

He looks pretty exhausted doesn’t he?

And now for the whole cake!  You can see the cut out Maple Leaf on the sleeve.

 

Happy Birthday Sweetie!   50 never looked better.

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