Cupcakes and cakes

I haven't been doing much with my life besides baking. Here's some of what I've been baking.

Emily and I made cupcakes to celebrate San Jose's hockey team, The Sharks. My dad had bought a tube of different sea creature sprinkles and the shark sprinkles happened to be in The Sharks colors. This wasn't so much a coincidence as it was a sign. We made some with just sprinkles and then I decided to try making fins out melted chocolate. That turned out to be a fantastic decision.



They looked fantastic all set up on Emily's cupcake tree.


For Easter (or the day after Easter) I made this cake. When I saw it on a baking blog I thought "Oh my goodness! I'm going to try making a 4 layer cake!" When I finished it, I took a look at the giant tower of cake on my counter and thought "Holy crap... I just made a 4 layer cake..." I named it The Beast. Even after giving a quarter of it to the neighbors, it still left us with a LOT of cake.


It's alternating layers of white and red velvet, with strawberries, and more whipped cream than anyone should have to deal with. It turned out to be delicious.