After my Halloween successes, I started getting asked (or promised) to do birthday cakes. The first one was for my best friend, Faith, who is a bit of a flower-child type. I had promised her earlier in the year that I would figure out how to make her a tye-dye cake. Which I did. No good photos were taken of the inside, curse restaurant lighting, but it was layered red, yellow and blue and had multi-colored sprinkles inside that melted during cooking, giving neat little star bursts inside. The outside decorations took the form of sunflowers. It didn't take me too long to figure out how to make them, but they turned out fantastically. I hid a very badly drawn ferret in the grass near the bottom as well.
Next of the agenda was my mother's birthday. She enjoys Native American decor and philosophy, so I made her a cake themed on that. The bear, and the kokopelli were all hand drawn and came out better than I had hoped for. There were a couple other symbols around the cake as well, but the kokopelli were the best recognised. She was very happy with it. In addition, the cake was chocolate and I made a ganache filling made of Andes mints that made the cake taste like a Girl Scout cookie. The top frosting was made with cocoa powder and mint extract as well. It was amazingly delish.
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