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!