Cakes on a table at the office getting ready to be et. Clockwise from top left, cheesecake (with a jar of homemade salted caramel sauce nearby), vanilla cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream frosting, and a rectangular pan of tres leches cake. All on a white-ish table along with a stack of small plates, forks, knives, cake servers, and three unlit sparklers standing by to do their duty to celebrate the birthday folks.

UPDATE: the encakening happened, despite their very homemade appearance they were declared delicious, and my Colombian and Dominican colleagues said the tres leches cake tasted exactly right so yay I win at today! #LexiBakesYVR 🍽️🍜

After last night’s baking adventure, I’m up early filling and frosting this cake in my terrible kitchen table lighting. Now all that’s left to do is whip cream to top the tres leches cake right before serving. And somehow get three cakes to the office this morning without mishap!🍜🍽️ #LexiBakesYVR

Baked graham cracker crust in a springform pan, wrapped in aluminum foil, all in a large aluminum roasting pan that I use for a Bain Marie for cheesecake, crème brûlée etc.

Cream cheese, sugar, sour cream, lemon juice, and eggs all mixed up and waiting to go into the baked Graham cracker crust once it’s cooled enough.

Baked crust cooling enough to add the mixed cream cheese etc, while the kettle is on t mo boil water for the Bain Marie. 🍜🍽️ #LexiBakesYVR

Tres leches cake cooling on the table, vanilla cake in the oven. Now to wash all the bowls and measuring cups again, and get ready to make cheesecake. And then salted caramel sauce. 🍽️🍜 #LexiBakesYVR

Vanilla cake: dry ingredients mixed and waiting for these eggs and sugar to double in size in the mixer. Seems fitting my first Bluesky video should be something I’m baking. #LexiBakesYVR 🍽️🍜

And now I wash all the mixing bowls and measuring cups and get ingredients in prefer to make cake number two: vanilla cake with lemon curd filling and lemon buttercream frosting. (The third cake will be cheesecake with salted caramel sauce.) #LexiBakesYVR 🍜🍽️

Two stainless steel bowls on a white-ish countertop, raw egg yolks in one, raw egg whites in the other

Maybe you have the ability to NOT sing “you gotta keep em separated” when you are separating eggs. But I do not. #LexiBakesYVR #TresLechesCake 🍜🍽️