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A Simple Heart

An 11 inch heart shaped white chocolate coconut cake, covered in red fondant, on a textured, black fondant board.

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Elena And Dean's Engagement Cake

This is just an 8 inch square with a lid also made from cake, all covered in fondant and sponged to get the colour just right. The stargazer lilies are made from my modelling paste recipe and the pink tissue paper is just fondant. This is one of my favourite cakes, and my very first engagment cake!

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Marbled Chocolate Fondant

This is from a Martha Stewart design. I love the simplicity and elegance of this cake, although simple looking it was quite difficult to get the marbled fondant looking just right and to get the ultra sharp corners. Still I love the design and the bride was at the reception centre when I arrived to deliver it and she loved it too, so that's what really matters.

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Photo Wedding Cake

This was a nightmare cake, I had a difficult time with the pink frames and I really thought with the coloured photos that it looked more like a birthday cake than a wedding cake, the sugar lily on top helped a bit.

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Shelley And Craig's Wedding Cake

Three tiers of caramel mud, Boonenati's recipes, covered in Bakels pettinice and with a modelling paste bride and groom on top.

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Bollywood Birthday Cake

This is a caramel mud and two tiers of white coconut mud cake(both Boonenati's recipes) covered in ganache and Fondx. The Lakshmi on top is made from modelling paste and the face was done using Aine2's models as inspiration, the elephants were made from fondant, using a template then hand painting the details and sticking on an ear, the paisleys are gumpaste painted with gold lustre and alcohol, the stars are royal icing painted gold, the lace panels are made withan FMM cutter and painted with gold.

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Tea Cup Cup Cakes

I have to thank kylielam2005 for the inspiration for this cake. I took the idea from her beautiful cupcakes in tea cups which she posted last year, thanks very much :) This was for a Bridal Expo last night, and it was a huge hit, plus it meant I didn't have to make 50 or so cupcake, which is what I normally do for an expo. they are just vanilla buttercake with whipped white chocolate ganache, sugar flowers and dragees.

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50Th Wedding Anniversary Cake

This was made for my hubby's parents and is a 12 inch chocolate mud, a 9 inch and 6 inch fruit cake, all covered in fondant and decorated with edible photos and sugar roses, with gold ivy. The frames were all made with cutters and dusted with lustre dust by my 9 year old daughter.

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Belinda's 30Th Birthday Cake

This cake is from a design by Boonenati, and I also followed her shoe tutorial, thanks Nati :) It's a caramel mud and a chocolate mud, covered in fondant, both "shoe boxes" are handpainted and the silver one has a lace cutter pushed into the fondant to create the pattern on the bottom.

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Sleeping Santa

Rectangular fruit cake covered in marzipan and fondant, all decorations made from modelling paste and hand painted.

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D'arcy's Little Birthday Cake

This is a tiny cake for my daughter's 9th birthday. It's a 4 inch and a 2 1/2 inch chocolate mud cake, covered in fondant with fondant ribbon roses, leaves and royal iced forget-me-nots and stringwork. I placed this on a handpainted plate that matches the tea cup in the background. My daughter thought it was the best cake I have ever made for her.

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Santa And His Reindeer

An 8 inch fruitcake which is being donated to a local scout group to raise money for their Jamboree. Santa and the reindeer are made with modelling paste, the antlers are royal icing. This design is taken from the book "A Cake for Christmas" by Karen Davies

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Peachy Green Wedding Cake

This is the first two tiers of a wedding cake, which also has an identical cake, minus the roses and ribbon as a cutting cake, because the groom didn't want anything more than a 2 tiered cake. It's a 10 inch and 7 inch chocolate and white chocolate mud in alternating layers filled with whipped ganache and covered in avocado green fondant with sugar roses and piped detail in avocado green royal icing.

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Daisy Birthday Cake

This is a tiny 6 inch orange buttercake, with custard filling, covered in ganache and fondant. All the flowers are made with flower paste as well as the butterfly.

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Peony Wedding Cake

12 inch and 9 inch chocolate mud with a 6 inch fruitcake. Covered in ivory fondant with sugar peonies.

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Shrek And Fiona Castle Wedding Cake

Chocolate mud and fruitcake, made for a bride and groom who is nicknamed Shrek

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40Th Birthday Cake

This was made for my cousin's 40th birthday. It's a white coconut mud cake covered in white ganache and fondant. The photos are scanned and copied onto icing sheets and then attached to the fondant, the frames are royal icing, painted with silver dust, mixed with alcohol. The hibiscus are made with modelling paste and then dusted red.

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Cupcake Tower

Cupcakes covered in Italian meringue butter cream

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3 Tier Fondant Display Cake With Pink Roses

My "emergency" cake, in case something happened to the other cake I prepared for the pictorial in a local magazine. A 10 inch, 8 inch and 6 inch dummy, fondant covered with pieces of fondant wrapped around each tier. They were made from long sausages of fondant, that I flattened with my hands and then glued on around the cake sides. The bow is modelling paste rolled with a textured rolling pin. The roses are made with the five petal cutter, which saves so much time!

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5 Tiered, Fondant Display Cake

This cake was made for a magazine pictorial. I hope they photograph it to hide the flaws ;o) It's a 10 inch, 9 inch, two seven inch for the central chocolate covered tier and a 5 inch on top. All fondant, including the bow, dots and pearls.

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Handbag And Shoe Box 50Th Birthday Cake

This was made for a friend's 50th Birthday. Both cakes are chocolate mud, and carved to shape, then covered in fondant, the shoe box in chocolate fondant. The accents are fondant/modelling paste, and the logos are hand drawn with non toxic markers. The mirror base was something I came up with because I was too lazy to cover the board with fondant ;0) Thanks to Boonenati(Nati) and Socake(Sandra) for all their help and for letting me "borrow" their ideas :)

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Mollie's 1St Birthday Cake

This was made for my granddaughter's 1st birthday. It's a Fifi Forget-me-not cake, based on her watering can house, with Fifi peeping out the window. I've not seen the TV show, but my son and his wife tell me Mollie loves it. Two chocolate muds, layered with whipped ganache and carved to shape, then covered in fondant with modelling paste spout handles, and figures. The board is iced with royal icing.

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Ava's Birthday Castle

This was made for a darling girl who turned 6 today. She told me she wanted a purple castle to match the princess themed jumping castle she had at her birthday party. Bottom tier is white chocolate coconut mud with whipped white ganache, top tier is dark chocolate mud with Chambord liqueur and whipped chocolate ganache and rasberries. Covered in fondant, all the turrets, and details made with modelling paste and royal icing vines and flowers.

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Tiffany Boxes

This is the dummy cake that goes with the bow I just posted. For a bridal expo this weekend.

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Cup Cake Tower

A dummy cake made for a bridal expo this weekend. The topper is a 6 inch petal shape, covered in ivory fondant with flowers made from modelling paste and royal iced vines, leaves and centres. Each cupcake was covered in a circle of fondant and then decorated with gumpaste floers and butterflies and royal icing vines and leaves.

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Black And White Wedding Cake

This is taken from a Wendy Kromer design. a dummy cake made for a bridal expo this weekend, 12 inch base, 9 inch middle and 6 inch top, covered in fondant and handpiped black royal icing details. the thin ribbons are attached to the fondant by wetting them and then just placing them on, very easy.

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