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All buttercream with plastic babies.
All buttercream. Hand-drawn design.
Used the sports ball pan for the shell and then covered in fondant. I ran a plastic fork over the fondant in different patterns to make the grooves on shell. The body, head and tail are fondant. Eyes are edible pearls.
all buttercream. I used the Wilton soccer ball pan and an easter egg shaped cupcake for the head. The neck is just built up icing.
This was for my own baby shower -- yes I di dmy own cake. Why not? I thought up the idea and wanted to do it so I did. My children are biracial so we spread little babies, both white and black, among the roses. It doesn't show up will bcuz this was taken with 35mm camera but the theme was: He or She, which will it be?
All buttercream. Horse is BC transfer
all buttercream. The bottom of shorts and the legs & shoes are all built up icing as are the sleeves and arms.
All buttercram with buttercream transfers n top and edible image strips along the sdes. All together there were 28 different cartoon characters on this cake! I wish I had my digital camera back then so the detail would show up well. 35mm Just didn't capture all the hard work that went into this one.
All buttercream. My daughter loves Dora, horses and rainbows so I combined the three for her cake. I confess I "cheated" by drawing the picture in pencil on a piece of paper, scanned that to my computer, printed an edible image of the drawing and placed it on the cake, then traced the drawing with black icing and filled in with assorted colors using the star tip. I didn't want t draw directly on the cake and risk messing it up.
All buttercream except the fondant blanket. My sis-in-law didn't have a theme so I just thought "Why not do a baby?" Didn't turn out too bad for one of my first 3D and first fondant cakes.
All buttercream Earth (used the sports ball pan but it didn't come out perfectly round) The space shuttle is fondant
All fondant, the C's were painted on using a home-made stencil and powder color mixed with clear vanilla. Those C's are difficult! They're such an odd shape. It took me forever trying to figure out how to do them before I finally made a decent stencil.
After getting inspiration from the many tiaras @ CakeCentral (not to mention help in the forum) I made my very first tiara and my first pillow cake. I made my own template and used melted Merckens white chocolates and edible pearls fo rthe tiara. Everything else is fondant. I made some mistakes along the way , but if there's anything I've learned in my years of cake decorating, it's how to cover a flaw! (hence, the pink drape) I gave $70 as the price. (It's a 1/2 sheet cut in half and stacked)
This was my daughter's 1st birthday cake. It is a 6,8,10 inch tiered cake all buttercream. My oldest daghter had a Cherished Teddies figurine on her 1st b-day cake so I carried on the tradition for my youngest.
It's all edible. The basket is a four layer cake. The cat and yarn balls were cupcakes. For the dog, I just baked some 6 inch cakes and started sculpting away, playing it by ear. All buttercream.
The spider was done with Wilton's mini ball pan. After doing this I recommend using pound cake because I didn't and I really had a time with it. Once I put the lollipop stick in to keep it secured it wanted to fall apart. I used Reeses pieces for the eyes. Black twizzlers for the legs.
The cake is buttercream with fondant balls around the bottom. I sprayed the fondant balls with Wilton's spray on color. I used those chocolate candy melts for the lollipops.
I made this for national bosses day. It's all fondant.
A friend wanted a very special birthday cake for her mom's 50th. I decided to go with black because it's a bit different than the typical lue/yellow/pink birthday cakes we so often see. I iced the cake in buttercream, used a small heart pan to mark the heart in the center, and then covered the rest in black cornelli lace. I used cookie cutters, filling them with buttercream- then freezing- to get the raised numbers. I painted those with a mixture of gold luster dust and clear vanilla. Then I added red roses
The whole thing was carved out of 1 sheet cake. I put 3 little wedges of cake in for the nose and just iced it all in buttercream, shaping it as I went.
I used Wilton's football pan and carved the fins out of a 1/4 sheet cake. A pretty easy cake to do, but it just took so looooong to do all those stars.
Tinkerbell was frozen buttercream transfer. I used wilton's food color sprays to get the purple color and liberally applied clear cake sparkles all over. You can't tell by the picture but she's supposed to be sitting on a mushroom. I was going to add all kinds of flowers and stuff but... it didn't happen.
The Dolphin wa frozen buttercream, the rest of the cake was buttercream, except for the water which was piping gel.
All buttercream, covered in cornelli lace. I used regular buttercream & didn't have to color it. The smal roses are buttercream, the bigger ones are fondant. This is the 2nd wedding cake I've done and only took about 3 or 4 hours.
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