Taster Cakes: How To Choose Your Wedding Cake Flavour When You Can't Eat Cake

Uh... What?

You can't eat cake? But you're human shaped.

Oh wait. Ok.

Artistic or Vintage?

I'm very excited to make a winter wonderland cake for my client. I met her while working at the Farmers Market and she has to be the most genuine, happy, excitable and giving gal.

Was that too much?

Who could possibly warrant such kind words from the kitchen bitch witch.

Well I'll tell ya the reasoning for my love for this gal.

She can't eat any of these cake. She's celiac. And she's the only celiac attending her wedding.

So rather than order a gluten-free cake (which I can't actually make; I can only make gluten-friendly goods as there is gluten in my kitchen, but I digress;) she is ordering a cake, of the gluten-full variety, for her fiancee and his family.

No, that's not Black Forest,
But it does have Kirsch

Doesn't that show just how much she loves her hubby? And his family?

Make me think of my love for my in-laws (which I don't call in-laws, cause I love them and saying in-law after everything is annoying exhausting.)

So how do you choose what cake to have when you can't eat them without risking your gut's happiness?

Order three cakelettes for family dinner with the to-be family and let them choose for you.

How nice, right?

This has appeared again.
My Grandma's fav.

She's already embracing all the German. 

Although, I don't think she gets how Germans work.

She picked up the cakes and with the exclamation: "That's too much cake!"

This is enough for 2 G-mans, I don't have the beer displayed.
That costs extra.
And is generally all gluten filled.

I laughed. 

And then I wondered if she knew what she was getting into.

I mean, what German doesn't like food?

Actually what human doesn't like food? 

I can't get enough.

Same with oxygen.

Orange Chocolate with my new frosting

Yeah... I haven't slept much.

Anyways, these 3 cakelettes are counted as my seventh cake.

It's July.

I'm doing alright, I guess.

Mr's Baby Ninja Turtle Cake: The Tale of a Love for Pizza

I'm a Liar.

A damn liar.

But in a good way.

See two years ago I arranged a surprise party for Mr's Birthday. I sent him off to watch Roller Derby while I prepared. My excuse was the tickets were sold out and I was making pizza anyways.

Party Pizza.

Most of the surprise party guests were at Roller Derby already, cheering on the E-Ville Roller Derby team. One of the guests arrived early. She drew him a card and I made Party Pizza.

When Mr arrived with another guest I thought for sure the gig was up. The first arrival had never been to our place before and had no reason to just be hanging out at our table. But he didn't get it until the fifth guest arrived.

For that birthday I made a Chocolate Bacon Stout Cake with Maple Frosting. It was as good as it sounds.

Can you see the Bacon? Stout makes for an amazingly moist cake.

Last Birthday I surprised him with Barenaked Ladies tickets. I told him we were meeting my Pops for supper. It was a bit of a walk to the theatre and Mr was getting angry at Pops. When we walked into the theatre, with all the banners and merch about, he still didn't clue in. He had to see the tickets to get what was actually happening.

The concert was amazing. I recommend them to everyone and can't wait to go again.

This year Mr made me promise no surprises.

Can you believe that?

So I made him a little cake.

A very little cake. Six inches on the bottom and a teeny four inches on top.

Baby Donatello (and the pizza toppings) are made with modelling chocolate. He was fun to make.

He started like this:

And ended up like this:

Notice Mr's name on the cake? So he'd know it's all for him.

He shared the pizza part with me. The crust is fondant, and sauce is fondant gunk. Toppings are all chocolate.

Yes, Donatello even has a tail.

Yes... That is a tail.

The cake was what Mr calls "Grape" flavour; which is actually Lavender Honey. Making it purple means it is Grape apparently.

So two cakes down: Ten to go. Next cake will be for my Gram's and Mom's Birthday. I'm planning on making my first gumpaste flower. " 'Cause seriously, speaking for everybody who are me in the car right now, we're very excited." 

New Damn Year and No Prize

So, all tallied up, I have made 61 new recipes last year. Surpassed my one new recipe a week resolution (but not my learning French one...)

It's a New Year, new resolutions. This time around it will be cakes. Twelve cakes, different designs, techniques, flavours. I hope to cover everything from the down right homey and classic German Coconut to a 5-tiered Sailor Moon and (hopefully) a few wedding cakes.

Bumping it up again this year I'll be blogging my creations, the process, and the hardships. Well, we'll see... I'm really bad at stopping while making something just to take a picture. Also bad at taking pictures. Also bad at completing things, like blog post, right after completing something else, like cake.

So let's get started then shall we? First cake on the roster is a Brush-Embroidery Winter Flower cake. Haven't exactly decided on flavour but I've got some ideas in mind. This one is up as a door prize for a Lolita Winter Wonderland Sale/Swap going down at Happy Harbor Comics on January 10th.

I'm also supplying cookies, mini cupcakes and cake pops (only cause of leftover cake pops from a certain December market. They have been chilling out in my freezer since.)

Dear God, I should get to work and not be drinking coffee and be about to play Skyrim...

A Challenger is near. ~Dremora