Dora the Explorer

Two blog posts in one week, guess you could say it's been a little busy around the 2amis kitchen.  This weeks cake was for a little girl having her 3rd Birthday.  Dora it is.

To make this cake we used an 8"chocolate round for the face, and more 8" chocolate rounds to make the hair.  Filled it with chocolate cream cheese frosting, covered it in fondant, added the face and possibly the easiest and less stressful cake we have made.

This order also wanted some cake pops to go with the cake.  So we made 15 cake pops and covered them in Pink and Purple sugar, and a pastel mix of jimmies.  Turned out to be some of my favorite cake pops.

Drum Cake

It's been a while since we baked a cake, blame it on a new baby and a summer filled with parents in town.

We got a request for a cake that looked like a drum with a miniature cake on top.  The bottom tier was chocolate cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.  It was covered with fondant and details to make it look like a drum.

The top tier was white cake with cream cheese frosting covered with fondant and fondant letters spelling out Happy Birthday Bobby.

The miniature drum set was made of candy clay and fondant.  It was fun to make and really like how it turned out.

And now for what you come for, the pictures.

The cake full view (really should have taken better pictures with my camera, these are all from the phone)

The mini drum set

another full view

from the top

drum set from the top

close up of the bottom layer drum