Gingerbread House 2013
This year's gingerbread house. I entered a local contest and won but there were only four entries and the other three were mostly not edible (the rules did state that it did not need to be all edible, but mine was). Windows and lamps are poured isomalt, windows colored with gel paste and edible markers. Flowers are piped royal icing. I had different landscaping planned but ran out of time (as usual!) Thanks for looking!
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70Th Birthday Cake
Easy No-Cook Meringue Icing (recipe in the recipe section). Fondant "lace" made from molds, gumpaste flowers, frames, and plaque. For the side decorations, I made gumpaste molds for the frames, glued the finished frames onto edible images, then poured isomalt over the images. I'm not a practiced enough piper for nice writing, so for the plaque I made an edible image with the font and design that I wanted and then glued that to gumpaste and piped over the design with royal icing.
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Gingerbread Fairy Village
My entry for this year's local gingerbread event. Houses, bridge, gazebo, lamp bases, and rocks are gingerbread. Roofs decorated with gumpaste, coconut flakes, and toasted coconut. Lamp tops are pulled sugar-my first attempt. Gumpaste flowers and decorations. I really wanted to make some gumpaste fairies but ran out of time. I found out that making seven tiny houses takes almost as long as making seven big houses! Thanks for looking.
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Noah's Ark Baby Shower Cake
Vanilla WASC with Easy No-Cook Meringue Icing (the icing recipe can be found in the recipe section). Design inspired by the baby shower invitations. The green is Duff's buttercream fondant and the characters and letters are Color Flow. The fondant was really easy to work with. To get the ribbing effect, I brushed petal dust onto corrugated paper and then pressed that into the fondant.
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Sunflower Wedding Cake
WASC with IMBC filling and frosting. Gumpaste flowers. Plaque is gumpaste with royal icing monogram and border. I looked high and low for a (reasonably priced) 14 pedestal cake stand for this. I had given up when I ran into this one on sale at Williams-Sonoma while on vacation half-way across the country. It was regularly $79.99 on sale for $19.99. I carried it all the way back in my carry-on bag!