My first cake was a Michelle Bomarito cake I copied out of Martha Stewart Magazine for my daughter's first birthday-the garden one. Did this YEARS before I decided I wanted to be a cake decorator
The flower cake is the first cake I made after finding CC last summer.
The blue cake was done this past weekend.
my first cake and a recent cake...thanks to cc!
i hope these attachments work ive never done this before...
I want to add mine - but I have to scan it in! Will see if I can get to it this week - love to see this stuff!
I'm finally taking Course 2 beginning tonight. I took Course 1 five years ago. The butterfly cake was my daughter's 1st birthday cake, the whole reason I took Course 1 in the first place 
. I really wanted to WOW! the guests at that party.
The tiered cake was our church's 2008 graduation cake for our high school students. I'm very proud of this cake 
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I'm nowhere near as talented as most people here, but I'm okay with that! You guys are amazing!!
My first cake is the birthday in blue and purple on a disposable pie plate creation, done nearly a year ago. My then 7 year old stepdaughter was in charge of applying the purple icing. Neither of us had ever touched a piping bag before, as you might be able to tell. 
One of my most recent cakes is also my most favorite cake. My baby sister asked me to make her wedding cake and the tiered cake below is the finished product on 7/11/08. I was happy with how it turned out and she was so happy with it she cried. The textured finish complemented her dress and I complied with the lone request she had: no frills, no froo-froo, keep it simple. This was also my first tiered cake!
Here's one my recent faves:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kavingate/2484787318
Here's the second cake I ever did, and I WISH I could find photos of the first. It was a tank, and it was hilarious!!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kavingate/455199159
Great thread!!!
Here's mine. The first one was a year ago and the second one was about 6 months ago. Not my first cake and not my most recent, but I thought you'd get a good laugh at my expense. Both are supposed to be camo cakes. It's pretty sad that I felt the need to explain that!
What a fun thread! The communion cake is not actually my first cake, but it's the first one I ever posted to CC. The princess cake is my most recent. I still have a long way to go, but at least I'm making progress!
Gee, I hadn't looked back at my pics in a while. This is fun to see just how far we have all come. These are the two I picked. The first one was just practicing with the leaf and star tips and that nifty edging. The second one was for a baby shower. It was the first time I tried modeling with gumpaste. It was lots of fun.
What a great topic!!!
I'm still not good enough for weddings, but here are mine...
(don't laugh 
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Thank you all for posting this... It gives me hope of me getting to be A LOT better!
Here's my first cake other than a couple Wilton pan cakes:
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=54792
Here's my most recent. This one I even carved myself. My daughter named it after her favorite teddy bear.
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1197089
This is so sad.... this is how my bow has evolved! I cant believe Im even posting this!! 
LOL
What a cool sun! It looks like my tatoo 
What's it made from? FBCT?
Wow! What a great idea!! It's awesome to see the progress everyone's made. You can definitely tell which cakes were the firsts and which are most recent. D
What a cool sun! It looks like my tatoo
What's it made from? FBCT?
Thank you! Yes, it's a FBCT. The sun and cupcake tops are my own design (inspired/borrowed from various Mexican folk art mosaics). I did the base as FBCT and layered on the drop flowers, vines, and sun details. I had a lot of fun with it and I think it's one of the best cakes I've done to date.
Here are mine from May 2007 to current (most recent shown first). It is amazing how much the info I have learned from this site has helped in the appearance of my cakes. For example, who knew how to get rid of those points on your icing dots before you found this website? Thanks to everyone who is so willing to share and help others succeed!
I'm no where up to par with some of you guys, but I'm definitely proud of how much I've improved within the last year!
LOL love this post! ok, the first one is the one from my wiltons 1 class
then my first stacked cake and then my first 3d model frog which i just made this weekend. My wilton class was just a couple of months ago!
You ALL are fabulous! I adore the fishie cake, the teddy bear cake (it looks so fuzzy!) and so so many others. CC is awesome for learning, but it's even better for encouragement. You guys are wonderful, great thread =)
Here is my first attempt at a fondant cake...I had made quite a few cakes before in BC but I consider this my first official attempt at decorating:
And this is my last cake:
I hope that works, this is a first adding images like this =)
You all are so special to me, I know it sounds a little mushy, hehe, but it's true. Where else can one go to learn an artform, where tons of highly talented people congregate to share and help others develop the same skill? That is SO selfless. I have come this far because of YOU CC FAMILY!
<3 Jemoiselle
Here are my cakes. The unicorn was before I started taking classes 6/2007. The 2nd cake was my birthday cake from May 2009. HUGE improvement!!!
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