His and Hers Birthday Cakes

June birthdays really have some good things going for them. June marks the beginning of summer vacation, the start of berry season, and is home to the summer solstice, which means that June birthdays last longer than any other month if you are just counting daylight hours.

I'm still working to get my marzipan covered cakes looking prettier. To get this practice in, I offered to make some friends "his and hers" birthday cakes as they both have June birthdays.

The first was a Kahlua chocolate cake with a Irish cream filing...

Booze and baking go well together.

The second was a carrot cake with a raspberry filling...

Full disclosure: I didn't choose the flavor combination of that second cake, it was actually requested. Separately the two flavors tasted great though.

When I got back from my store run to get all my cake ingredients, I realized that I forgot a semi-important ingredient: carrots. Fortunately, I had a mostly full, one pound bag of those tiny inch and a half long baby carrots. After thirty minutes of grating, and a couple attempts to take the tip of my finger off, I actually had enough shredded carrot to make the cake. It worked out in the end, I just don't know how I managed to forget to get carrots when I was making a carrot cake.

Now it is back to YouTube to get more marzipan decorating tips.

--Isaac.