Blue Ombre Panda

2 rounds covered in buttercream using gradation effect of blues. Topped with a fondant panda.

Limey Nail Polish

3 layers of cake, stacked and iced in lime green buttercream. The handle is a piece of gumpaste (formed around a small white rolling pin overnight) and then wrapped in black fondant. Fondant initials and flower accents. Made for a 10 year old girl.

Baby Owl

8" round covered in fondant with RKT/fondant owl on top

Penguin Party

Igloo made from doll pan + 1 cupcake and covered in BC. Poured BC blue pond and white ground cover. Penguins are fondant. Edible glitter sprinkled on snow.

Ncc School Bus

9" X 13" cake, cut in thirds, stacked & carved into a bus shape. Buttercream coat and fondant accents. Wheels are oreos covered in black fondant. The cake sits on a stack of 3 sheets of foam board and two wooden axels. The cake was made for children at a local community center. They were celebrating July and August birthdays.

Grill

This cake was done in celebration of a Navy family returning to town. They were lured to a cook-out which was really a surprise homecoming party. The cooked hamburgers are chocolate rice krispie treat with cocoa powder and black powder dust. The raw hamburgers are regular rice krispies mixed with Americolor red, dried and then combined to make rice krispie treats. The hot dogs are treats wrapped in fondant. The charcoal is a combination of red, yellow, cocoa and black powders dusted and smeared onto marshmallow halves with my fingers. The grate is grey royal icing. The cake is 3 layers, each 9" X 13" - strawberry, vanilla and chocolate with white chocolate ganache and covered in black fondant.

Nancy's Retirement

Made for a home ec teacher who was the JV cheerleading sponsor and ran the school restaurant. She's a fan of FSU and was retiring to Tennessee. The recipe box included some of her best known meals and the cookie cutters represent some of her previous cookie requests. Two layers of vanilla cake with a chocolate buttercream. Fondant and gum paste accents. For some reason the black gel paste writing on the megaphone grew veins over night and the lettering was not as nice the next day. I didn't like the pom-pom but couldn't really decide how to do it (the orange and white blob of stripes).

Purple Dots

This turned out to be quite a tall cake! Iced in Buttercream with fondant accents in shades of purple. Roses on top are fondant.

Graduate

Made for a high school grad. Accents on bottom tier are fondant. Diploma is fondant (with tylose) rolled paper thin. Top layer is covered in green fondant and mortarboard is a square of chocolate covered in fondant. Tassel strings were squeezed through a garlic press.

Lego Head

3 6" rounds stacked and covered in yellow buttercream. 4" round on top for 'nub'. Legos on the board are chocolate molds. I made marshmallow pops to take to school. I used a giant campfire sized marshmallow with a small marshmallow on top and dipped in yellow candy melts. When the candy hardened, I painted the faces in black.

Emily - Volume 12

Birthday book done to coordinate with party plates. Volume 12 because it was for her 12th birthday. Fondant cover with buttercream piping of paisley and flower details.

Debbie's Retirement

3 books are cake with fondant accents to give the appearance of books. Book titles are courses she taught over the years. The car is rice krispie treat covered in fondant. Debbie and accessories are fondant.

For Leo

Carved tennis racquet cake from rectangular cake & oval cake; covered in fondant, accents in royal icing and fondant. Tennis balls are rice krispie treats covered in fondant. Made for a birthday celebration for a fan of Roger Federer.

Jungle Cruise

The birthday girl wanted monkeys in the jungle.

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Syd's Dragon

Vanilla cake with strawberry and ganache center. I used 2 oval pans, carving the tail and neck from the larger one. I built up the legs and face with (Duff) fondant. Scales and features are fondant. I used a small piping tip (both ends) and an apple corer to get the different sized scales. Scales on legs are made with a drinking straw. Wings are rice paper. Fire is modeling chocolate. Disco dust brushed all over. Made for a 16th birthday girl.

Hibiscus Flower Cookies

NFSC with Toba's glaze.

Flip Flop Cookies

NFSC with Toba's glaze.

Knight

PVC skeletal construction arms, legs and feet covered in rice crispie/marshmallow, coated in melted white chocolate and fondant 8" cake rounds (3) + 6" round, for the belly, carved head - styrofoam ball covered in fondant shield - fondant with tylose added gray fondant is lightly dusted with silver

Secret Agent

Safe: 3 7" squares with BC Bomb: Ball pan, covered in black fondant Fondant message, magnifying glass, crime tape, handle & combination

Judy's Purse

9" X 13" yellow cake, cut into 3 parts (5.5"+4.5"+ 3"), stacked and carved. BC bag and fondant straps, zipper & pull. Thanks MelZ for your help with the zipper. ( :

Topsy Turvy Twelve

Yellow topsy turvy cake 2-3-4 on 4-5-6, iced in BC with Skittles candies for accent. "12" is made of fondant and held in place with toothpicks. My son insisted on Publix (grocery store) icing so I reluctantly obliged at $ 5/ pound.

Princess Rebekah

9 " chocolate cake carved into a pillow, iced in BC with fondant Tinkerbell (gelatin wings), white chocolate tiara (luster dusted silver), and fondant lanyard, pin and tag.

Josie's Suitcase

2 layers of cake, 9 X 12 pan size. BC with fondant accents. My daughter and I made this for a friend who is moving from Florida to Ohio.

Jacob's Bakugan

8 " square with Wilton ball on top. Iced in BC with fondant accents. Bakugan logo was done at a FBCT. Ball is doweled to square cake below and sitting on straws. TFL.