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Inspired by fiasmama. My first big cake. 12" and 10" tiers covered in chocolate MMF. Red buttercream border. Confectioner's chocolate poker chips and dice. Gumpaste playing cards hand painted with gel colors.
Inspired by the gorgeous casino cake by "fiasmama". This is a practice for a larger and more ornate cake I'm doing soon. I molded the dice, chips and cards out of candy melts, which was tricky . The level of detail I wanted wasn't possible. Plus I don't think I'll be able to adhere the chocolate to the sides of the fondant, will I?
Ice cream and brownie cake with buttercream and marshmallow fondant. Little girls are modelling chocolate, their sleeping bags and pillows are MMF. My daughter came up with this design and supervised the execution ;)
Sugar cookies covered in MMF/RBC combination with RI accents.
My Ugly Doll posing next to his cake likeness.
My first sculpted cake. The carving was a lot of fun. My fondant work still needs practice, but overall I'm happy with this cake.
rolled fondant and buttercream
These started with wanting to use leftover cream cheese icing from DH's birthday cake. I piped blobs of the CC onto waxed paper and froze them. Over the course of a few days I used a tube of Wilton black to pipe on the little pentagons onto the balls. There certainly are easier ways to make the balls, such as molded candy melts, but I thought these would be much tastier. The grass is buttercream dream tinted in three different shades of green and piped on with the Witon grass tip, which I love!
The temperature was in the nineties so my fondant was a little difficult. I'm happy with my design, but the execution, particularly on the top layer isn't what I had hoped to achieve. Five months after starting, I'm still having a lot of fun and learning with every cake.
Marshmallow fondant topped with Wilton red fondant roses, chocolate MMF rope, chocolate buttercream vines. I really need to practice my vines!
I did this cake with my 7 year-old using the Wilton guitar pan. That pan is nice for an acoustic guitar, but not so much for an electric. We were just experimenting and I was pleased at how black my chocolate MMF came out.
I learned a lot from this & I was surprised how fun it was to do the basketweave. I don't know how people put these together in the span of a two hour class! I'm so fortunate to have a great supportive instructor!
I didn't take enough care getting my (refrigerated) Buttercream Dream to the right consistency, but I'm happy with the violets. I got the hang of making them and had fun doing it. The cake is chocolate fudge, torted with a dark ganache that didn't harden as much as I wanted--I wanted some crunch in there.
These were an experiment in many ways! Penny's Pastries Butter Cookie recipe, rolled buttercream, Toba's Meringue Royal. RBC was great to work with but I don't love the taste of Wilton's butter flavor. The flavor of the cookies is good (2 T vanilla!) but I plan to reduce the baking powder to 1 tsp as in my usual recipe--these spread and puffed too much, especially the dragonflies.
These were an experiment in many ways! Penny's Pastries Butter Cookie recipe, rolled buttercream, Toba's Meringue Royal, and melted bittersweet chocolate. RBC was great to work with but I don't love the taste of Wilton's butter flavor. The flavor of the cookies is good (2 T vanilla!) but I plan to reduce the baking powder to 1 tsp as in my usual recipe--these spread and puffed too much.
These were an experiment in many ways! Penny's Pastries Butter Cookie recipe, rolled buttercream, and melted bittersweet chocolate. RBC was great to work with but I don't love the taste of Wilton's butter flavor. The flavor of the cookies is good (2 T vanilla!) but I plan to reduce the baking powder to 1 tsp as in my usual recipe--these spread and puffed too much.
My first attempt at FBCT. Overall I'm pleased with the results. Since I was crazy enough to make it on the day of my daughter's party, I'm relieved it turned out at all! Definitely learned some things for next time.
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