Cakeopolis: September 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011

#110 The Tiny Chocolate Milk Party Cake

August 31st, 2011

The Tiny Chocolate Milk Party Cake

I made this tiny cake for my daughter & I's weekly "Chocolate Milk Party" - which is a great tradition, I think. :o)

I made it from a double oreo, (half chocolate), frosted in buttercream and left, covered, overnight. (The cookie softens)

#109 The Seasoned Missionary Cake

August 30th, 2011

The Seasoned Missionary Cake

This was a birthday cake for one of the missionaries in our ward - he is at the end of his mission here, and was transferring areas the next day. I was crunched for time, so I got the most plain cake I could find at Meijer and brought it home to spruce up. (I know, blasphemous!)

The cake was white frosting, with a blobby orange border and three gigantic blobs made out to be balloons on the cake. I added some more to the border (hey, might as well get really crazy with it), and put a picture on it of two determined missionaries serving in the Chicagoland area. :o)

Vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream.

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