Exploding Stars Cake

My first attempt at an exploding stars cake.  Chocolate mudcake and chocolate buttercream covered in fondant.

Wiggles Big Red Car Cake

Wiggles Big Red Car Cake.  3 Layers of eggless vanilla buttercake filled with vanilla buttercream and decorated with fondant.

Dora Doll Cake

2nd Birthday cake for my daughter who is in love with Dora.  This is a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and fondant.

Smith Island 14 Layers Cake

I have seen this cake on a few blogs and on an Oprah episode and thought I would give it ago.  The Smith Island layer cake is now the official dessert of the USA state of Maryland.  It wasn't too difficult to make just time consuming and all 14 layers of cake are individually baked.  It is then filled with a cooked chocolate fudge icing and  I then covered it in chocolate fudge cream cheese frosting.  This was more like a ganache as I found the cooked chocolate fudge icing a little thin for the outside of the cake.  So I ended up whipping through cream cheese and melted chocolate to thicken it.  This is for my husband's Birthday today. 

I think the layers of cake before iced looks like a tower of pancakes with chocolate sauce!  If you want to try out the recipe this is the one I used http://www.oprah.com/recipe/food/recipesdesserts/food_20030508_cake or this one on Bakerella blog which has the best step by step photos http://www.bakerella.com/fourteen-for-the-fourteenth/

More Gingerbread Houses!

This is the gingerbread house that I made for our family and another small house that was given as a gift.

Cupcake Cookie Birthday Favours

I made these cookies for my son to give out as party favours.  They are organic spelt blackstrap molasses ginger snap cookies decorated with rolled fondant and royal icing.

Small Gingerbread House

A small gingerbread house made for a Christmas gift.