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Slightly twisted squares, buttercream. Fresh flowers and petals. Small black hearts on the sides were done out of fondant with a paper punch. Thanks to whomever came up with that, it worked really well. I plan on using that method again.
All buttercream except for the drapes, they were done with a mixture of fondant and gumpaste. Also fondant ribbon roses.
This was done for my son-in-law's birthday party. My daughter did a luau theme party. I had great fun doing this and hated to see it cut. I used Hawaiian wedding cake with fondant. Gumpaste flowers for the lei and some airbrushing to finish it off. It was a huge hit. Thanks to the other roasted pig cakes in the galleries for inspiration.
This is a reposting of a cake I already have in my photos. This picture shows the detail much better than the original picture I posted. Buttercream with Chocolate fondant bows and leaves, gumpaste magnolias.
Buttercream with gumpaste rose and rose petals. Gumpaste monogram dusted with pearl dust.
Ivory Buttercream with ribbon and silk flowers. You have to love it when the bride picks out great silks. They really made the cake.
Buttercream with gumpaste flowers.
Buttercream with satin ribbon and silk flowers. The picture does not show it, but it was airbrushed with pearl which gave it a nice shiny finish.
This cake was designed from a beer cooler. The couple wanted it to coordinate with the fountain. Buttercream with fondant leaves.
Buttercream with fondant accents. Silver dragees. Satin ribbon. The couple provided the motorcycles for the topper.
Buttercream with gumpaste scrolls, cornelli lace, silver dragees and satin ribbon. A variation of a Carrie's Cakes design.
This cake was for a local junior college Black Student Alliance event. Two 3 tiered cakes, iced in buttercream, stacked so that the outsides were lined up to emulate a canyon. The bridge spanning the two cakes done with gumpaste. VERY fragile! Edible images on the bottom tiers. Edible image banners and gumpaste numbers.
Hexagon cakes covered in fondant, two bottom rounds roughly covered in buttercream to emulate snow.
Chocolate buttercream with gumpaste callas. Kind of unusual with the fondant dots, but when I got done with it , I really liked it. It kind of gave it a bit of a funky look with the traditional flowers.
Buttercream with gumpaste magnolias, bow loops, and chocolate leaves.
Closeup of Royal Icing snowflakes. The glitter doesn't show up all that well in the picture.
Buttercream, purchased ribbon and royal icing snowflakes with glitter.
A replica of the original wedding cake, the picture was black and white, so we had to rely on the newspaper article as to the color of roses. All buttercream with royal icing drop strings. I haven't done drop strings for quite some time, so that was a challenge! Sorry I don't have a picture with the cake top, but it really looked great with it.
Buttercream with fondant bow and accents.
Chocolate cinnamon cake, fondant with a gumpaste crown. This was a fun one to do. I hope the groom isn't insulted!
This cake was all styrofoam except for the top tier. Dark Chocolate buttercream, gumpaste roses.
Hexagon buttercream done with a rough plaster finish, gumpaste leaves.
Buttercream with fresh red roses and baby's breath.
Buttercream with fondant pearl dusted mosaic. Champagne glasses used as separators. Satin Ribbon and silk flowers.
Buttercream with fondant accents.
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