Spiderman Cake
The following cake is one I made for a friend of a friend. Her son was turning 6 and was obsessed with Spiderman. I used the Best Recipes chocolate mud cake with a basic chocolate ganache. The kids at the party all loved the cake and apparently fought over getting to eat the spiders :)
The following cake was also for a friend of a friend. Her son was obsessed with Jaws although he wasn't allowed to watch it lol. I was really happy with how the shark head turned out, although I didn't think the rest of the cake was quite up to the standard I was hoping to achieve. The cake was my easy peasy 5 minute chocolate cake with a chocolate ganache.
Chocolate-Espresso Layer Cake
The following cake is a birthday cake I made for my father in-law. I decided to try a non-fondant cake, and used inspiration from this gorgeous vanilla bean latte cake from Sweetapolita. I used my easy peasy 5 minute chocolate cake but tried my hand at making my first Swiss Meringue Buttercream - espresso flavoured. I also made candied pecans, some of which I left larger for decoration, the rest I blended into a crunchy topping and added to each layer. This cake was by far my favorite cake yet, it tasted sooo good, and the candied pecans were amazing!
Lego Power-Miners Cake
For A's 4th birthday he requested a Lego Power Miners cake. In case you've never seen Lego Power Miners before (you can see a couple of examples of them on the cake below), they're incredibly complex and intricate and I had no idea how on earth to make one out of cake! So in the end I cheated and decided to make a mine out of cake and add the Power Miners onto it. Everything on the cake was edible EXCEPT the Power Miners :)
I used my normal chocolate cake recipe and made a caramel Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Minecraft TNT Cake
For A's 5th birthday this year he requested a Minecraft cake. He loves playing Minecraft and blowing everything up with blocks of TNT so I thought I'd do a block of TNT for his cake. I used a terrific banana cake recipe layered with cream cheese frosting and covered in white chocolate ganache.
(Apologies for the crappy camera phone pics!)
60th Anniversary Cake
The last cake I made was for my husbands grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. I wanted to try my hand at brush embroidery for the first time. I don't have very steady hands at piping, but I was still happy with how the cake turned out. I used the Exclusively Foods white chocolate mud cake with raspberry swiss meringue buttercream and covered in white chocolate ganache.
