Strawberry Season

In between cakes we like to try out different desserts. Here are two involving strawberries, 'tis the season!


Strawberry chiffon pie
Recipe - Better Homes and Gardens

Strawberry...cream, roll, shortcake, something

Rock 'n Roll-o

It has been while since we've posted a cake here, but for good reason, we had a baby girl! Kathy and Megan are both doing great and it is hard to believe it has already been two months! As it goes, it is busy with a newborn, but somehow we still managed a few cakes over the last little while. The cake in this post was from April, however, well before Megan was born.
Some friends invited us over and we decided to bring a cake; we are always looking for a good excuse to make a cake. One of these friends is one of Paul's old guitar playing buddies so we made a plan to do a guitar and an amplifier cake. It looked really cool in Paul's imagination, but didn't translate to real cake very well. The structural integrity was lacking on the amp. As you will see, the guitar came out great!

It is to scale, not sure what ratio, but to scale as far as length and width to a Fender Stratocaster. The guitar is cereal treat with creamy white (and then colored) frosting. Rolo candies make the tuning knobs and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups make the volume dials. This part came out well, the amp wasn't as successful.

As you see, the amp turned into more of a rock, than a guitar amplifier. It was supposed to be several layers of chocolate cake with chocolate fudge frosting in between layers, then covered with fondant and decorated to look like a Marshall half-stack. Well, it was obvious after the layers were stacked that this amplifier would not be able to hold its own weight. After an attempt to reposition the cake to help it stand better, Paul got frustrated and gave up. It wouldn't be an amplifier, but it was still a mound of delicious cake, so we covered it with fondant. Upon seeing the finished product we noticed it resembled a rock. By placing the Rolo next to it, and playing on the words involved, we still got our Rock 'n Roll-o cake.You can't win them all.

Captain America! Jello

Paul's office had a dessert competition for the 4th of July. The guidelines were "red, white and blue." Simple enough. We didn't make a cake, but the outcome was still blog-worthy. It tasted as good as it looks!

Raspberry Jello formed the bottom layer of the shield, topped with whipped cream, fresh raspberries, strawberries and blueberries. The "star" in the middle was drawn with whipped cream.

Megan's Frog Cake

Just last week Kathy created a cake for Megan. In our church we give babies a blessing shortly after they are born. Kathy wanted to make a cake for the blessing day to share with our family that would be there. As Megan looks like a little frog sometimes, or acts like one, or for whatever reason we started calling her a frog, the theme for the cake was obvious.

The cake was chocolate with a peanut butter frosting between the layers. The rest of the frosting was butter-cream. We used fondant to shape the little frog. Kathy piped the grass and cattails using the butter-cream.