Ivory Teapot Cake
This is the first one I've made of these, but saw some amazing ones on this site and thought I'd give it a try! (Special thanks to Simply-Cakes and Premier-pastry.com for their versions, which I blended to create mine.) All in smooth buttercream with gumpaste details like flowers and heart topper, spout & handle.
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Turtle Baby Shower (Design From Bakemeacake.net)
I fell in love with the clean, graphic look of this baby shower cake from Bakemeacake.net when I saw it last year and was dying to try it out! The absolutely fantastic topper was hand-made in a lightweight clay by none other than our own Flourgrl (Lisa)...you rock! The 6" & 10" cakes are Tahitian Vanilla layer cakes filled with a tart lemon curd and iced in white chocolate rolled fondant.
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Jungle Cake With Cookies
Thanks to a few members on here for their inspirational posted photos (like Seagoat, Pinkbunny & Ojah_w !!) I had fun with this one...how couldn't I? I love the ease of decorating with pre-iced cookies, that's fast and simple to assemble. I should have incorporated a bit more colour in here, but the client had a budget that I had to work with....though I went far beyond it. (I know, I know....my own fault!)
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Ivory Roses Cupcake Tower
Vanilla & Dark Chocolate cupcakes iced with a swirl of ivroy buttercream & large ivory buttercream roses. Simple, but I loved the display. (One thing I do wish is that they could have given me a larger table....I hate the look of the tower's corners going off each side. Grrrrr! )
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Poker Table
I was inspired by SO many of these awesome cakes on here (especially Klsrtr's recent design...thank you!) Done in buttercream with gumpaste playing cards/poker chips. The designs on the cards were done with food colouring pens. The inscription reads "Happy Birthday Adam! You're a card...actyally, you're 2 cards..." then the Jack & Ace cards below...get it?? hahaha! It was the client's idea, but I liked her sense of humour! (I did the A on the ace upside down....whoops!!)
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5-Tier Buttercream Cake With Champagne Satin Ribbon
I loved the simplicity of this big cake. I did thick double-layers of cake inside, instead of the regular triple-layers. (They were only serving it as a midnight dessert item, with so much other food.) Iced in IMBC with ivory fondant behind the champagne-coloured satin ribbon on each tier.
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Tiles Birthday Cake (Like Ledas Bakery)
I adore the cakes at www.ledasbakery.com, so I jumped at the chance to try my hand at one of their designs using fondant "tiles" and "lettering". So simple, but so pretty! I must practice my ribbon roses. They crack before I can even roll them up nicely! Grrrrrrrrr!
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Wallpaper-Inspired Wedding Cake
I was asked by a bridal magazine to create a cake with a "La Vie en Rose" theme to it this year. Rather than go the traditional route of gumpaste roses, I wanted to do something else. I researched antique French wallpaper patterns that had roses as the prominent theme and came up with designs for this 4-tier wedding cake. I was so excited to show you guys...but I felt I had to wait until the magazine issue came out this week, just in case it infringed on their publication rules or something! Thanks!!
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Mini Blue Gift Cakes
I meant for these to be a bit smaller, but they turned into 3" x 3" x 2.5" each!! Whoops! They were the main dessert for a wedding of 120 yesterday, but only 30 fit on my stand. (The rest are in the kitchen.) Each cake is a double-layer Roasted Banana Buttermilk cake filled with a thin layer of Cream Cheese Buttercream, iced with a thin coat of Madagascar vanilla buttercream, covered in blue fondant and detailed with a white fondant ribbon/bow. I love them, but that's my last mini cake order!!!!!
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Baby Boy Baptism Cookies
Did a big collection of these for a baptism this weekend. I didn't have a really nice big rocking horse cookies cutter, so I ended up cutting each out by hand with a pattern....grrrr!!! I used the shape of the cutter at www.cookiecutter.com but will now go and buy it to save my sanity for the next order!
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Snowflakes With (Gasp!) Fondant!?
Yes, my time was becoming very limited last week with 11 orders of cookies due....about 850!! I did the fondant basecoat and used my royal and sanding sugar on top. I have to say though, it didn't save me a ton of time on these 250 snowflake cookies...and I was really worried that the royal icing was so much easier to chip off than on a basecoat of royal icing. Fast? Well, a bit. Easier? Not in my opinion.