Since last Saturday I've baked 9 cakes. Not huge cakes but still 9 cakes. All for good reasons but that's a lot of cake.
The first round - 4 cakes, were for my son and his fiance. They wanted to pick out the flavor of their wedding cake. I made red velvet, chocolate, vanilla and lemon. I frosted the red velvet with cream cheese frosting. I didn't do anything else cause I don't know of any other frosting that goes with red velvet, but the other three I cut in half to have more cake to frost. I made chocolate with chocolate frosting and peanut butter frosting. The vanilla cake was frosted with chocolate and strawberry icing. The lemon with white chocolate and vanilla frosting. I'm glad I didn't have to choose cause I liked them all.
The next batch - 3 cakes was for another couple that I'm making a wedding cake for. I had to make up a sample platter so it could be picked up and taken to the groom to be for his input. I had a small amount of red velvet cake left so I included that too. I made the same flavors as before.
As I get better at this I want to try a few more "fancy" flavors. Like cookies and cream (chocolate cake with Oreo frosting) or dreamsicle (orange cake with vanilla frosting).
The last two cakes were made for the blue and gold banquet. Each year in February the cub scouts celebrate scouting. I made a cake for them last year. It was 100 years of scouting so I had a pretty good idea what I wanted to do for the cake. This year I had no idea. I searched the Internet for inspiration and with Bob's help decided on a camping scene. Our cub scouts don't camp over night but still it was cute and was fun to make.
