My son turned 18 last week.  When I asked him what he wanted on his cake, he said "surprise me."  He is a masonry student at the local vocational/technical school.  He got a chocolate cake with chocolate peanut butter frosting in the middle and fondant "bricks" around the outside.  The fondant was a little too soft.  I think I need to add more powdered sugar and let it dry a little more before I start "construction."

                                     

Happy Father's Day...Here's your cake!!

My husband, bless his heart, is very difficult to buy for.  If he wants something, he goes and gets it.  So, for Father's Day, I was left high and dry for a present idea.  He very rarely has big reactions of "oh, I'd like to have that" over anything.  However, we were watching a competitive baking show on TV the other day, and he saw a cake with strawberry mousse inside.  He did have a big reaction to that.  TA DA!  Father's Day present.

I wanted to surprise my husband with this cake, so while he attended church yesterday morning, I went to work on the cake.

I started by dipping the strawberries into the melted chocolate.  Then, I made my version of strawberry mousse.  Half a bag of mini marshmallows melted in the microwave, a tub of Cool Whip, and strawberries cut up into tiny bits.  I then made cream cheese frosting.  Dear Hubby does not like sweets too much, so cream cheese frosting is his usual choice.

I then baked a chocolate cake and a yellow cake (I was in a hurry, so I used boxed cake mixes that I embellished).  Once the cakes were cool, I dug out a moat of sorts around both cakes.  Then, I put the strawberry mousse inside the moat.  I put the cakes together, hoping that the moats would line up.  Then, it was time for the frosting.  Once that was done, I put the strawberries on top and then drizzled melted chocolate around the edge.    

So....the moats didn't exactly line up the way I had hoped....BUT, Mr. I Don't Like Sweets So Much loved the cake!