Teresa's Birthday Treat

My sister-in-law was celebrating her birthday and I thought I'd whip up a nice treat for her.  I seem to recall that chocolate cake was among her favorites, and her mother used to make a really wonderful peanut butter frosting; a recipe she shared with me.  

Because it would just be my sister-in-law and my brother celebrating her birthday that night, I made two six-inch cakes and filled them with chocolate frosting and peanut butter frosting and the covered the whole cake with more chocolate frosting.  I made some vanilla buttercream as well and added some ruffles and a cute flower on the top of the cake in one of Teresa's favorite colors.  

Here's the cake in the color-matched kitchen (I think I did pretty well!!!).  

And here's the inside of the cake.  Delish!

There was some extra batter leftover from her cake, so I made some cupcakes as well.  My nephew is not a fan of frosting, so he got some plain chocolate cupcakes to help his mom celebrate.  And here were some extra cupcakes that I decorated with all of the extra frostings and fillings.

YUMMMMY!!!  

I hope you had a great birthday, Teresa!

Sherry's 60th!

Bob called requesting a cake for his wife, Sherry's, 60th birthday celebration.  He wanted a vanilla cake, raspberry buttercream filling and chocolate frosting for the cake.  I was able to do whatever I wanted for decoration.  And boy did I have fun with this one!  Chocolate frosting?!!!  Get out of here!!!

I decided on something simple for decoration.  Simple and elegant.  This is the kind of cake I'd like (hint, hint).  Not too busy, but just enough to make it really pretty.  

I used tip 104 and did a zig zag pattern to make the sides of the cake look this way.  It was a technique I'd been hoping to try and thought this would be a pretty addition to this simple design.  

The flowers were inspired from the cupcakes I had done last week.  I still had some of the beads left and wanted to use some more.  I think these are so pretty!

Happy Birthday, Sherry!  I hope you had an amazing celebration!