Valentines Day!

So I've been making cupcakes for Zpizza in Mammoth Lakes, CA.. these are two of my favorites from today's Valentine's day batch :

Then a friend asked me to make a cake for his girlfriend.. they didn't want fondant.. so I practiced my icing.. which I'm not so good at yet.. but it turned out pretty cute anyway. It's a flourless chocolate cake with cream cheese icing and strawberries.

Hamster Cake

This one was for my roommate's birthday.. it's modeled after her hamster, Charley.

It's actually a dark chocolate brownie with cream cheese icing, covered with crushed waffle cones.  The house and Charley are Ho-hos covered in fondant..