Jack and Jill Cake

Thank you to Lori-Ann who placed a request for a Jack and Jill Cake for Shane and Jodi. 

It was to be two tiered with the bottom flavour a two layered cookies and cream.  The top tier would be a two layered vanilla cake with the bottom layer dyed with a blue food colouring and the top tier pink.  Here is my recipe for the cookies and Cream Cake.

Ingredients:
1 (18.25 ounce) package white cake mix
1 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 egg whites
1 cup chocolate sandwich cookie crumbs

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9 inch round cake pans.

2.In a large bowl, mix the cake mix, water, oil, and 3 egg whites with an electric mixer on high speed for 2 minutes. Gently stir in crushed cookies. Pour batter into the prepared pans.

3.Bake for 25 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pans. Remove from pans, and completely cool on racks.

I decorated this cake with buttercream frosting and added fondant accents to bring the theme together.  I made the baby onsie and booties with gumpaste.

Spidey Senses

My Stylist Suzette of R n B Creations in Brampton mentioned that her son's birthday was coming up. I instantly went in for the kill.

"I would love to make Ethan a cake. Any theme in mind?"

Turns out Ethan is a fan of Spiderman. Suzette requested cupcakes too. Here is what I came up with:
I added blue and red food dye to the cake batter. There is nothing like an additional surprise of colour once a cake is sliced.

The cupcakes were carrot cake with cream cheese icing. I added creepy black spiders to continue with the theme.