Cakes, cakes, cakes!

Recently, I found this awesome site that has free patterns for various cake components and oh so many inspirational pictures. The cakes are really easy and fun to make, and I plan on making many more in the future! My first two creations are below:

1. Super chocolate-y with a strawberry and wafer stick on top. The cake itself is 30 stitches round, with puffy icing one dc smaller than the instructions provided (the final yarn over is when there are 5 loops on the hook.) The wafer stick is 8 stitches across, and I alternated colors between rows.

Norma Lynn stuffs the cakes with potpourri sachets - I just used polyfill, which also meant I had to close up the holes at the bottom. For both cakes, I made evenly-spaced decreases down to 12 stitches around, and then used PlanetJune's ultimate finish technique to pull the hole tight (you need to go around roughly 18 stitches to completely close up a 12-stitch hole.) For the chocolate cake, I also inserted cardstock pieces at the top and bottom to help prevent the polyfill from bulging out too much.

2. White cake with a pink flower. This cake is 36 stitches round with scalloped icing. I used PlanetJune's posy blossom patterns for the flower and leafs - I first created a large blossom (D) and then went around the loop again with a medium blossom (B).

Delicious, yet healthy... how awesome is that?? =)