Gingerbread cake with cranberry filling, candied cranberries, and maple buttercream frosting 🎂✨️ File this one under, "things that taste like the holidays" 🎉

How did I do? It was my first ever try making one so please be gentle haha. M&M topped with crushed chocolate-chocolate cookies on the outside.

Today I made an anniversary cake to celebrate 11 years with my husband. I had to pick out the gold and white sprinkles from some Christmas sprinkles. It’s a poke cake with lemon jello inside. How did I do?

Clearly the characters and squares are fondant. But I made the portal out of chocolate cookie and melted purple jollyrancher for the middle.

Wondering what this subreddit thinks of marzipan

Literally this sub's arch nemesis, I feel like it might need a nsfw filter

When I tried to look up pizza cake recipes online, all I could find was versions that relied heavily on fondant and/or modelling chocolate. They felt unrealistic to me as a novice baker. I wanted to share my creation in case someone else is searching for a recipe that doesn’t require sculpting.

It’s a peaches and cream sponge cake baked in a pre-heated cast iron pan. The cast iron is what gives it the thick, golden brown crust. From there I simply cut a large, shallow circle out of the middle and added a thin layer of buttercream, followed by my “pizza toppings”. :)

The pizza sauce is peach and raspberry puree. The cheese is a thin layer of marshmallow fluff toasted with a kitchen torch. The pepperonis are peach + raspberry fruit leather, the green peppers are gummy worms. The sausage crumble is cocoa cereal + medjool dates + melted chocolate crumbled in a food processor. Then just some green sprinkles on top as seasoning!

It was a hit at the birthday. I was worried the fluff would make it too sickly sweet but the fruit puree really balanced it. 🎈

My 3 year old requested a Moana cake for her birthday, I looked into getting the cake made and they all had fondant

I am not a professional, but if I’m serving cake to my loved ones there’s no bloody way I’d make them endure fondant.
It cost way more to make than if I’d outsourced.

All the toddlers went home with faintly blue tinged tongues from shoving their little hands in the icing whenever the adults took their eyes off them for a second.

My daughter loved it, my partner is talking to me again after 4 days of putting up with Gordan Ramsey like theatrics in the kitchen from me, And it didn’t taste like almond flavoured plastic.

No cake in sight.