Adele's baby shower

This was supposed to be a 2 tier cake, but one of the cakes didn't turn out, so I turned it into a double barrel.  It was only 7" so it wasn't super high, but plenty of cake for the small shower.  The top tier was vanilla with raspberry filling, the bottom was chocolate with caramel.  I love the ombre teal, the shower was teal and grey.  So cute!  The topper was a milk chocolate mustache.  I had to drive it myself to the party, I was so nervous!

Live every week like its shark week.

Although I never actually watch shark week, I still seem to get excited about it for some reason. This year, I decided to make a shark week cake because I'd been wanting to do a horizontal ruffle ombré, and what better way to show it off than waves in the sea.

I baked two 8" rounds using my favorite "Fluffy Vanilla Cake" from Sweetapolita. I also tried something new, we'll see how it worked out...After brainstorming with Jeff about wanting a thick layer of strawberry compote, he suggested instead of a buttercream dam, that I use a ring of cake. I had an extra layer of vanilla in the freezer from last week, so I cut the middle out, and filled it with compote. I'm going for an "oozy" layer effect, and I think using a cake layer instead of a dam will allow that to happen. I whipped up some silky smooth Swiss meringue buttercream from Sweetapolita, colored it, and piped using a Wilton 104 for the ruffles. This was my first time using my fancy new turn table and it was AMAZING. I also made some white chocolate shark fins that I put around the top of the cake. Hopefully the guys at Jeff's work will enjoy it. 

"So here's some advice I wish I would have got when I was your age... Live every week, like it's shark week."

~Tracy Jordan, 30Rock. 

Before adding "whitecaps" and fins. 

Finished project. I'll add a pic of the inside when they cut it tomorrow. 

Here's the inside :)