Cell Phone cakes

Lately I've been on a baking spree.  I guess that tends to happen since it seems to be everyone's birthday and then before you know it, the holidays are here! These two cakes were taken with my cellphone camera so I'll apologize if they aren't the greatest :)

The first is a chocolate chip cookie cake I made for my coworkers Zach and Cristina.  I remember Cristina mentioned that she loves a good chocolate chip cookie.  I decided, why not make a cookie cake! I knew they would both love it.

To make it more decadent, I whipped up a bittersweet chocolate ganache that I used to fill and decorate the cake.  After two minutes, let's just say look at the picture below!

 Before

After

I made this last cake at my mom's house since we were all craving chocolate.  It was definitely different for me to bake outside of my own kitchen but I had awesome help (thanks mom and Sarah)! This is a chocolate buttermilk cake with a caramel pecan cream cheese buttercream frosting.  It was surprisingly light and not too sweet. 

It was a total hit and a new learning experience for me.  Check out the pic below!

xo,

Daniella :)