Hunny

I was asked to do another baby shower cake for someone at work.  Well, the first time, I volunteered.  This time was a paid gig.  Below are the results of my labor.

The hunny pot is basically a four layer cake with chocolate on the bottom and vanilla on top.  Everything is coated in a butter cream frosting which I flavored with vanilla and butterscotch schnapps.  The hunny pot itself has the additional layer of brown marshmallow fondant, flavored with cocoa powder (reminds me of a hot chocolate!).  The bees are also marshmallow fondant and the simulated honey is a caramel sauce which I bulked up with frosting and colored with yellow food coloring.

Seems like the folks liked the cakes.  I'm glad, too, because I stressed over them for days.

Bryce's Dagobah Cake

Bryce always has very specific ideas about what he wants on his birthday cake.  I love this about Bryce.  I'm all too keen to accommodate his every bizarre whim.  So, when he said, "I want Dagobah," I was psyched.

He supplied the Star Wars action figures and I supplied the crazy swamp goo.  I whipped out my entire candy making arsenal on this one.  From the caramel sauce pool Yoda is standing in to the chocolate plastic gnarl trees that sprout from the swamp cake, this cake was treated with every skill I'd developed over the last year or so.

The white gooey stuff is marshmallow sauce and the frosting is my mom's traditional buttercream.  I also embellished with a few color-coordinated gummi worms.

Check out the lime Jello swamp goo on the X-Wing fighter!  Luke looks a little out of scale, but Bryce didn't care.  He was totally into the chocolate plastic gnarl trees.  Snarfed one down right after we sang the birthday song.