Transformer Cake

This cool cake took a trip to Seward!  Thanks for finding BeNi Cakes and meeting me in Anchorage!  Happy 4th Birthday to the Transformer Birthday Boy!

Rose Cake #2 (and BeNi's Special of the Month!)

A rosey birthday cake!  Cherry chip with cherry buttercream frosting.  Thanks to Ni for the idea!

BeNi Cakes Alaska is offering this cake as a February special!  $25 for a 8" round, rosey cake, any flavor.  Email BeNiCakes@hotmail.com to order.

Cake Wreck

Our idea was good, but not using cake plates was not.

On a better note...it tasted yummy and was much enjoyed by the three birthday kids (myself being one of them)!

Roses

This was a practice cake (just to see if I could do it!) and it's now on its way to Otavalo. I hope the Santillan family enjoys it!
White cake (from a box...gasp!) with buttercream frosting.

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Feliz dia de Amor" from BeNi Cakes, South America!

(Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream frosting and fondant hearts)

Happy Birthday to my gardening friend!

Okay, so there is a little story behind a garden cake for a January birthday! My neighbor and friend has a wonderful spot for a huge garden and the last few years I've been able to help him plant it. It's a big job, and I'm a terrible help when it comes to weeding it, but we do get an awful lot of rewards once the veggies start producing. Since we are the main ones in our families who enjoy the profit of gardening, I figured he might just like a garden cake and our families would finally eat some cabbage and carrots!


This cake is chocolate fudge cake with chocolate pudding "squirts" here and there in it, frosted with chocolate frosting and sprinkled with Oreo crumbs. The veggies are all made out of marshmallow fondant and buttercream icing. The railroad ties are Keebler fudge covered wafer cookies. It was a wonderfully delicious chocolaholic's dream cake!

And just so you know what I was trying to duplicate (but could not find a moose figurine anywhere this week!)...
and by the way...I apologize greatly for the terrible photos. Alaska is very dark in the winter and lighting was awful today. Plus my husband took them and I didn't double check them before cutting the cake. Oops!

Flowers and a 10-minute BeNi cake!

It's rough when your birthday is December 26. And often you get gypped out of a cool cake. Even if your mom is "Ni."

This year "Ni" did a nice cake for her daughter earlier in December. Here's what it looked like:
For the actual day of birthday, the December 26th birthday girl requested a crab cake. That is, a cake that looked like a crab. But who wants to bake a cake the day after Christmas? There was half of a cake in the freezer that became this little sand crab creature -- a 10-minute deal and the birthday girl loved it! One thing to keep in mind is that while crushed graham crackers make great sand, it also goes flying when the birthday candles are blown out.
Happy 7th Birthday, CBR!