Luau!

The original conversation went a little like this:

So...I need to talk to you about a volcano cake

Sure! Are you thinking "human sacrifice" or "Luau"?

You know, she'd be delighted with either one...but how about we go with Luau?

Okie dokie!

I lost count of how many layers of chocolate sponge cake  I stacked up for the volcano.  But it was a lot of chocolate cake all held together with chocolate ganache.

Surrounding "island" is vanilla cake, more ganache and crushed up graham crackers for "sand".

Modeling chocolate and gum paste trees, thinned out orange buttercream frosting for the lava and swirling buttercream waves finished out the cake.

The mom sent me an inside view.  A special inside lava surprise! 

Baby shower Barn yard!

A very special family is welcoming a baby boy in a few short weeks.  His nursery layette is farm themed...so, of course, his shower cake had to follow suit.

Six layers of chocolate cake, filled and covered with vanilla Swiss buttercream.

Baby cow and chickens are molded from modeling chocolate.  For the recordI do not recommend working with modeling chocolate in August!

The barn is covered in fondant and a chocolate roof.

Almond "haystack" cupcakes to round out the display!

So much fun to create!  Even more fun to hear some of the party goers confess they didn't realize the barn was cake!

Thanks, D and A for allowing me to be part of your special day!