I had the privelage to make some pretty cool cakes in the month of December for some amazing friends and I’m was thrilled with the final products.

I made this Hot Wheels cake for a wonderful 5 year old boy named Josh. His mom asked me to make something special for his birthday in a ‘Hot Wheels’ theme. I wish i could say that i knew what i was going to make right off the bat but despite having a 3 year old boy at home, i had no previous notion of what to make for this cake. I searched and searched for Hot Wheel ideas and i saw so many cars, black cars, purple cars, red cars, even pink cars…but to make a cake with just cars wasn’t the way i wanted to go. At least not just cars, needed a little more umph…needed to make it pop more then just a little simple cake. So i found this ring of fire and thought i would give it a try. It’s always tricky for get things to defy gravity (no matter how small) and this ring was small and thin but i managed to make it work…barely. I loved the little cars i made though. They didn’t look like traditional Hot Wheels which made it even cuter:) In the end, Josh loved it:)

I also got asked to make a Christmas cake for a very dear friend. I was so excited to get this one started. I was nervous at first as i had so many ideas i didn’t know which one i wanted to concentrate on. My brain tends to jump from one idea to another, sometimes it takes me days to buckle down and get a design together. I think even that sentence took me a while to write….

Back to the cake….

I tend to complicate things for myself as i frantically search for new recipes and i tend to try them when i make cakes for friends (good thing they always turn out delicious:) ) This one ended up being a marble pound cake with a bavaria cream filling. I must say this was a first for me. The pound cake was very heavy but tasted quite good. I had troubles with the Bavarian Cream, as it was a first, and it tasted divine (though i learned from my mistakes). I knew i wanted to do something fitting for kids as well as adults. I searched and found some inspiration (thanks to google) and decided to tackle another first. As soon as i saw this snowman i knew i had to make him! He reminded me of St.Nicholas from my youth in Poland, very European looking. I amazed myself at how fast i was able to make him. This made me thrilled as i knew that i had come a long ways from my very first cake. I was even more thrilled to make the snowman:) Loved the top hat and his scarf, then adding a little icing sugar made the whole thing come together. I was beyond thrilled with this cake. I still grin when i see it cause i know how happy it made me. The way Christmas used to make me feel when i was a kid!  So let the New Year begin…