Cakes

I've always idolized people who can work wit fondant and make incredible cakes. Usually my attempts are mediocre at best, but I think the challenge is so much fun. Recently it was my boyfriend's friends birthday and I was asked to make the cake. Not knowing how many people were going to be there I ended up making two just to be safe. One I got from Bake or Break, which if you havent seen her recipes I HIGHLY suggest you check em out. Every one Ive made from there has been orgasmic!  I made a chocolate glazed hazelnut mousse cake which got RAVE reviews! Making it would have been easy minus the fact that my springform pan broke in the process and i had batter pouring everywhere. Two hard wear clamps, a dad and mom, a cookie sheet, and an extra pan later, the cake was done! Oh and just a side note, hazelnuts are NOT easy to find! Who knew? Anyways heres a junky picture of a delightful dessert.

The second cake I made----dont hate me----a boxed cake. I know I know, but I work and just didnt have time to make it homeade. Plus I knew I was going to try to decorate it so awesome no one would even notice it was boxed. 

Of course in the life of Corey nothing comes easily. My oven broke and it took 4 hours to cook what should have been a 30 minute cake. UGH. But it was done. One blue cake and one green cake (dyed with food coloring) stacked on top of each other and iced. FONDANT TIME!

I didn't want to cover the cake in fondant because I personally, dont like the taste. So instead I iced the cake and just decorated with it.

The person this was for is a HUGE fan of Lost. I never seen the show, have no idea what its even about, but I googled it and got a picture of something called the "Dharma Initiative"- whatever, I was gonna make it in fondant. 

Lots of black food coloring later,  I had a pretty neato cake. Oh- FYI Jon is the birthday boy. I switched the word "Dharma" with his name. Hope that doesnt offend you Lost fans!

The computer was the pic I was going for.