Reunion cakes #2

Okay, next post-- Here's the top tier of the centerpiece cake (strawberry cake)

Here's the middle layer of the centerpiece cake (white cake)
and the bottom layer of the centerpiece cake (half chocolate, half white)
I decided on the cake flavors based on what cake mixes I had in my pantry when it was time to bake.

Here's the four satellite cakes, (chocolate, carrot, red velvet, white)
And this is how much frosting was left when everything was frosted. Looks like I made just enough, huh.

Next post--the completed satellite cakes!

Reunion Cakes #1

Okay, this is the first of several posts about the cakes for the NICU Reunion so I can keep all the pictures in order. Wednesday I spent the entire day baking 10 cake layers. Then 1 cracked and one stuck to the cooling rack and broke into a bajillion pieces. So, this morning I rebaked 2 layers.

Here are the cake boards for the centerpiece cake
Here are the cake boards for the satellite cakes
Here are some pics of the cakes waiting to be frosted. I didn't take pictures of the ones I had to throw away because--#1 I was really frustrated #2 I didn't think to do it until they were in the garbage.

This is the huge batch of buttercream frosting I made to frost all those cakes. It's 8 batches of frosting. I tinted it tan (the Reunion theme is Safari so I thought tan was a better background than white.

So on to next post and more pics.