This cake is a surprise that's being shipped to my aunt who's turning 78 this week, as kind of an inside joke. Her 40-something son lives with her, but travels fairly frequently on business, thus leaving her home alone. Whenever he's going to be gone more than one night, he will stuff the guest bed with pillows, making it look like a man is sleeping there. (Evidently believing the nasty bad men will take one look at those pillows, get scared, and move on to their next unsuspecting victim.)
His latest trip sent him out of town for six weeks, so he stuffed the bed with extra large pillows to look like an extra big man, and this time added the decorative sword that usually hangs by their front door at his side -- for extra protection over a longer period of time.
This potential threat to all crime fighters everywhere is a lump of carefully-crafted fondant sleeping on lime green polka-dotted sheets and a white satin pillow, with a daisy-covered turquoise coverlet atop his large self. The giant copper and silver sword adds quite the ominous touch. There's even a size 14 pair of brown slippers on the floor on the other side of the bed -- ready for action at a second's notice.
I hope she gets the joke the minute she sees the cake ...
Two layers of chocolate cake, filled and iced with chocolate buttercream, surrounded with slabs of chocolate, topped with chocolate-dipped strawberries. The wedding guests were swooning.
... are quite popular with the toddler-girls set this summer. Which is lucky for me. I adore making these cakes! This one is for a two-year-old who's having a swim party for her birthday. How cute is that?
This cake is a surprise that's being shipped to my aunt who's turning 78 this week, as kind of an inside joke. Her 40-something son lives with her, but travels fairly frequently on business, thus leaving her home alone. Whenever he's going to be gone more than one night, he will stuff the guest bed with pillows, making it look like a man is sleeping there. (Evidently believing the nasty bad men will take one look at those pillows, get scared, and move on to their next unsuspecting victim.)
Lest you think I am capable only of frosted delicacies ... these are goodie trays that middle daughter and I whipped up for a catering job last week. Lemon bars, Millionnaires and Mexican wedding cookies. Middle daughter has been making these (plus fudge!) for Christmas gifts for the past several years. This particular combination makes a nice assortment for luncheons, teas, receptions and parties of nearly every kind.
Cookies for our celebration tonight. We will be sheltering in place and watching fireworks on TV, for the first time in 25+ years. Hard to believe.
Cookies I made just for fun this week. There were three times as many before the various cookie monster types walked through the front door.
