Two baby cakes and baby bundts

This was a busy cake baking week! First, I had my final class in the Wilton Fondant and Gumpaste course. I chose to do a yellow butter cake covered in yellow fondant with a baby bassinet on top (basically a fondant box with a baby and blanket inside). I also learned to do fondant draping along the cake to simulate a blanket. I had to let all my coworkers know that this was NOT a clever way to make a baby announcement!

The second baby cake was for a coworker, whose son was turning 1! It was a monkey cake from the Wilton 2007 yearbook. It used the Friendly Lion pan and then added cookies to transform him into a monkey! I rolled the cookies a little too thick though, so the monkey's proportions were a little off... Oh well, I think he is pretty cute. And besides... the birthday boy fell asleep before cake anyways!

The baby bundts were a chocolate bundt cake from my new favorite book "Cake Love". I filled them with whipped cream and strawberries and dusted them with confectioners sugar. YUM!

Happy Birthday... to Dan's dad, Jeremy, and me!

We were celebrating the early August birthdays  this weekend, and I wanted to try my first stacked cake. I wanted it to look like a present, and I am pretty happy with the result. The bottom cake is chocolate pound cake (from Cake Love) filled with whipped chocolate ganache and strawberries, and the top is yellow butter cake (also from Cake Love) filled with the same ganache and strawberries. I frosted the cakes with Swiss Meringue and covered them with fondant.