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These are sugar cookies with royal icing decoration and gold dragees as hoof accents. They are decorated to look like Swedish Dala horses, which are little traditional carved wooden horses painted with similar patterns like my cookies. I made them for my neighbor who is from Sweden and she was very happy with the result! :)
I cut large (8") snowflake cookies, covered with royal icing and accented them with dragees and a pinch of edible glitter. I "glued" them with royal icing onto doily-covered cake rounds for stability and packaged them in large food bags tied a bit of ribbon to close them.
Red velvet cupcakes topped with buttercream icing. I made the blue star, tree and snowflake decorations from melted Jolly Rancher candies and cookie cutters. I used store bought sugar snowflakes and sprinkles and a little edible glitter.
This was for my son's college geology lab class end-of-semester /Christmas party. I made the volcano out of gumpaste by making a cone out of thick piece of Foamie, forming the volcano around it. I spatter painted it to make it look rocky. I rolled out and free formed orange gumpaste for the lava. I made little gumpaste rocks. The snowflakes and presents are sugar decos I bought. The orange balls were made from the lava gumpaste. I filled the volcano with a cake crumb/icing mixture and used it as spackle inside the volcano so I could place the wires inside. It isn't shown, but I squeezed buttercream into the top of the volcano and then sprinkled orange edible glitter inside to make it look like lava inside the volcano, which was a detail not lost on the students! : )
Sugar cookies cut out with a Christmas bulb cutter and decorated with a layer of royal icing, topped with sanding sugar. I piped "threads" with royal icing on the part that fits in the socket (whatever that's called!) and let them dry, then flooded some royal icing over them and let that dry. Then I painted it over with silver luster dust. When I served them, I poked holes in the bottoms and threaded black licorice strings through the holes like a string of lights and left a pair of safety scissors on the platter for people to cut away a cookie.
These are chocolate cookies with a gum paste tree adhered to them. (I tried piping trees with royal icing like in the photo I saw, but I'm afraid my hand is not steady enough.) I piped r.i. for the snow on the tree and the ground and sprinkled nonpareils on the tree. I then lightly brushed a little corn syrup on the background and sprinkled more nonpareils for falling snow. I used a gold dragee for the "star" on top of the tree.
These are decorated with royal icing. The acorns were painted with a little gold luster dust.
This is a cake I made for my son's end-of-year gymnastics awards banquet. It was outdoors, so I chose a "summery" theme of bumblebees and flowers. It was the first time I tried making the bees, which are gumpaste. I drew the stripes with a food coloring pen. I put a little "disco dust" on the wings, though you can't really see that in the photos. I made the royal icing grass and flower clumps on the side ahead of time and glued them on at the last minute.
The bunnies were cut from swirled gumpaste and I painted a few details on them, attached toothpicks for placement and made little royal icing flowers using the Wilton flower tip. I made the buttercream "grass" with a Wilton "grass" tip.
This was a cake for a fifteen-year-old girl who likes all things pink and sparkly! I made the butterflies from royal icing painted with luster dust and the flowers are gumpaste. Store bought pearls and sprinkles.
This was a chocolate carrot cake that was served to gymnastics judges at a competition. I made the carrot people from gumpaste then glued them on little gumpaste plaques because I didn't trust my skill at piping the carrot people's green "hair" directly on the cake.
My first attempt at making royal icing butterflies and scrollwork. The daisies are gumpaste.
This cake was for a Jane Austen fanatic for her birthday. I was afraid to try making a book shape, so instead I made Jane Austen's framed silhouette and an inkwell, (with a chicken feather for the quill), a hankie and some flowers out of gumpaste. I made the corner accents from royal icing. I used a real candle in the gumpaste candleholder rather than regular birthday candles.On the sides, I made plaques with quotes from one of the books. It was a huge hit with the birthday "girl".
I made this pommel horse cake for my gymnast son to share with his teammates who were suitably impressed! It was really easy since the fondant came in the perfect colors for the pommel and the blue mats. The handles are gumpaste rolled and wrapped around two bendy drinking straws spliced togetherand bent at right angles. The cake was a 9X14 rectangular cake cut in half lengthwise and stacked. The boys loved it!
This was a cake I made for a friend's daughter who liked the song "All Star". The stars are gumpaste painted with gold lustre dust.
This was a birthday cake for a friend who loves the beach. I made the shells of gumpaste pressing it into a plastic chocolate form then hand painting them with food coloring and lustre dust.
This was a birthday cake for a friend's husband who is an "audiophile" with an extensive collection of records. I used rolled fondant to cover the turntable and made all of the accents including the arm out of gumpaste.
My assignment was to make a cake depicting roller coasters and dolphins for my son's friend's birthday and here is the result.
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