Graduation Cake

Chocolate cake with strawberry mousse filling and swiss meringue buttercream. The cap is made from a cupcake with a piped and hardened square of chocolate on top. The scroll is made of marzipan.

Tres Leches!

Chiffon cake soaked with three milks and rum extract. This time I filled it with strawberry mousse, whipped cream, strawberries and mangoes, since that is what I had on hand.

Minnie’s Minnie Mouse Cake

This may be the first time in eight years of cake decorating that I’ve actually made my namesake cake. The bottom tier is banana cake with strawberry mousse filling. The top tier is chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling. Everything is frosted in pink vanilla swiss meringue buttercream, even the little banana cupcake on top. The dots and Minnies are piped in buttercream and ganache. I piped and chilled a little Minnie face in dark chocolate to set on the very top. Lots of fun!

Ladybug Chocolate Dipped Strawberries!

Champagne Cake - Chiffon cake soaked with champagne simple syrup, filled with pastry cream, sliced strawberries, and strawberry jam, and iced in vanilla bean swiss meringue buttercream. Sweet, tart and moist, the construction of this cake consisted of eating many bites of different combinations of fillings. The jam was the key! It brings the strawberry flavor to the forefront. What can I say? I love what I do!