R2-D2 Cake

This last minute cake ended up being a lot of fun and I couldn't stop humming the Star Wars theme song as I was working on it! As I was taking a vacation visiting family I was asked to make a cake for the little boys cousins combined birthday party. Since it was Star Wars themed I let my creative juices flow for a while and then came up with this idea. My first though was to create a full R2 but since I was on vacation and I didn't have my cake stuff I decided to scale it down a bit! This is the fastest specialty cake I have ever made thanks to the help of my hubby and momma who helped me color fondant, watch the kids and cut some shapes for me. Since this was for kids I let my son pick the cake and of course he picked funfetti cake and we added chocolate chips to the filling. Everyone loved this cake and didn't realize it was a cake until is was pointed out to them. LOL. I really enjoyed make this cake and the kids really loved how it looked and tasted!

Chocolate cake!

I seem to do a lot of farewell cakes and here is another one. This is a very simple one tier very chocolate cake. The cake is covered in my own very chocolate cover with chocolate pieces and a chocolate squiggly on top.
Inside is fudge chocolate cake with a whipped chocolate gaunache. I wasn't there for the farewell party but I was informed it was gone before the party was over!

Flamingo Farewell Cake

I made this cake as a farewell surprise for a Cpt in the Army who had finished her time and was getting out. She really likes Flamingos and chocolate. The the outside was covered in green and blue to represent the environment where flamingos live. I added green reeds/leaves and then flamingos as well as big letters spelling farewell. The flamingo on top was on it's own until I had an accident with the cake and ended up having to cover the mis-happ with blue (pond like) Fondant. Inside was chocolate cake with gaunache and then the top tier was yellow cake with buttercream frosting with chocolate chips! Everyone loved it and ate it up fast!