Panamax Cake

My latest cake was for a party celebrating the end of an international naval exercise called Panamax.  I made a from scratch chocolate cake with a secret ingredient!  The filling was cherry pie filling, and just regular vanilla buttercream frosting.  I was unable to attend the gathering, but I've heard raving reviews, and I hope they save me a piece to try it myself! ;)

Chocolate cake - cooling and in one piece!

cake split and filled!

And frosted!  It had a crumb coat, too.

Decorated cake!

Inspired by the PANAMAX logo

only side decoration

Cut and served... there were 12 people eating this and still half the cake left!

Birthday cakes!

Since my last blog, I have done 3 cakes.  I will talk about two of them here - 6" rounds - homemade from scratch funfetti cakes.  One batch of batter was enough for the 2 small sized cakes.

One of the cakes was for the 1st birthday of the Argentine officer's baby, and the other was an early 60th birthday cake for my mom, since she was visiting and I won't be able to make her an actual cake on her bday.  Both were filled with a chocolate raspberry filling!

me with the cakes cooling!  The cake for the baby was a zebra cake of white and blue funfetti!

me with Maria Sol and the birthday baby!

1!

The baby loves soccer, so the cake had soccer balls going around it

Birthday mom with her cake!

Close up!

The inside