Strawberries and Ceam

My youngest daughter wanted a strawberries and cream cake for her family dinner birthday cake. It was so nice to ice a cake with something other than buttercream. I also get excited when I get to make a cake other than chocolate - sad but true :)

Because you can never have enough sprinkles...

I also made this cake for the PTA BBQ. It is chocolate with chocolate icing.

Please excuse the messy bench tops in the background but I was in a cooking frenzy (as my husband calls it) and I was running late to deliver the cakes to school; so hey, what else is a girl to do.

I used two packets of chocolate sprinkles on the top as sometimes more is more :)

Two Tiered Chocolate Cake

I like to bake cakes for different events as it gives me the opportunity to try out different decorating ideas I have either come up with or seen on the Internet. I made this cake for last year's PTA BBQ.

Pokemon Cake - Mew a Space Pokemon

My son wanted a Pokemon cake for his last birthday. I absolutely loves Pokemon thanks to all the new Pokemon DS games that are available. When he told me he would like a Pokemon cake I naturally assmed it would be a Pikachu cake. This would have been a very easy cake to do as I could have simply altered the Pooh Bear head cake I had done for my daughter's birthday.

Unfortunately for me my son had other ideas. He scoured the internet looking for pictures of Legendary Pokemon. These Pokemon must be the most angular and fiddly looking creatures I have ever seen. We discussed that difficulties of making a cake in the shape of these Pokemon and in the end we came to an agreement. Mew, a Space Pokemon, was settled on and a 'drawing' of him rather than an actual cake cut out in his shape. I used a bit more of the irresdescent dusting powder to give it a more 'spacy' feel. My son was very pleased.

Here is Mew. My drawing didn't turn out too bad, even if I do say so myself. My son declared it his best cake ever :)

Pooh Bear

I asked my daughter what cake she would like for her birthday party. She assured me she wanted a Princess cake like her sister had for her birthday as few years ago. It was the type of cake with a Princess doll sticking out of the top of a cake skirt. So I leapt into action and prepared for a Purple (as she HATES pink) Princess Party extravaganza.

Just before sending out the invitations I thought I had better double check that Princesses were still the popular choice.

'No,' I was told. 'I have always wanted a Pooh Bear Party!'

I have to look on the bright side, at least a Pooh Bear cake was easier to do than a Princess cake.