One of the perks of taking baked goods to work all the time is that people are asking me to bake for them! It's nice doing something that I really love and making a mini profit. Two weeks ago, Lulu had to work an overnight shift and had two birthday cakes to handle... one for her mom and one for her boyfriend and I had the honor of making them!! By special request I made a cake version of my Black Forest Cupcakes. I have a pan from Wilton that bakes a heart into the middle of a round cake that you can fill with whatever floats your boat. In this case I made a chocolate cake and filled the center with a cream cheese cherry mixture. The cream cheese didn't fully mix in, but I kind of liked that there were mini pockets of cream cheesey goodness waiting as a surprise in the center!! For the second cake I went with a staple (partially because I was craving some cookies) of Oreos. It was just a plain chocolate cake and in the middle layer i mixed a vanilla icing with a billion crushed up Oreos. The filling came out super sweet and complemented the chocolate cake well!! When it came to decorating I wanted to keep them pretty simple and be able to tell them apart since they looked identical from the outside. For the Black Forest, i made some little cherries and cherry blossom flowers out of fondant and piled them in the center of the cake and I just placed some full Oreos around the outside of the second. Take a look at the pictures, I was EXTREMELY happy with the cherry decorations!! They looked so freaking cute and girly!! I guess it worked out because that cake went to LuLu's Mom :)
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