This month has left me with many a reason to make cakes, making it a good month. I started out with a birthday at the OOO Office. I always enjoy doing cakes for them because they just give me a theme and let me run with this. The first was a cake for a gentleman named Tim who worked on the Corpse Craft game. This was a great one because I had just recently started into painting with royal icing. I think the end result turned out well. The flavors were red velvet and vanilla bean buttercream.

Next up I stepped up to the plate to make Cephalopod another squid-type cake. Last year I went the 2-D route, so this year I was determined to make it 3-d. I started with a standard 10″ cake (flavors were vanilla lime with keylime curd) then built on top of that. The squid was made of poundcake and the ship piece made of marzipan. Other than that it was buttercream and fondant.

This cake helped me transistion into my next cake for a coworker George, who moved to Greece a week ago. I was assigned the task of making a going away cake for him. Again it was a standard 10″ cake. The flavors were carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese filling and a Swiss buttercream frosting. I used what I had learn from making the squid to make and texture a sheep. I don’t know Greek, so it was interesting trying to figure out how to write “Happy Shepherding” on the cake. I apparently got shepherd right. That’s better than nothing.

Next up with a 20 Year Anniversary cake for our general manager. I was given a invitation to design it after. I wish I’d done more on it; but I also think that if I had, then it may have ended up too busy. This was the first time I had used stencils on a cake and it was a great learning experience. The flavors were white cake with lemon curd and fresh berries.

Though I do not have a picture, the final cake of this month went to a good friend, Danny. Who’s birthday was this week. We celebrated with some wonder Afghan cuisine, tiramisu, cthulhu Munchkin, Blazblue, and Zombies. I’m still a bit bitter that I’ve still yet to win a game of Munchkin ever since I learned it at Connecticon a million years ago.  Anyway, cheers Danny!

This week we are off to Connecticon! See you there!