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Designed for the senior citizens where I taught fiber arts. Look for others that are close up.
How fortunate that I was to have a neighbor whose daughter's birthday was the day that I did this cake in class. It's a moist white cake with homemade marshmallow fondant. The icing was a vanilla pudding. The flowers are made of homemade gum paste and the twizzlers are of homemade fondant/homemade gum paste bond. I was proud of my outcome since this was just the 3rd time I made fondant and the 2nd time it was successful. LOL
Since I was having a monthly crochet meeting, I decided to use some of the techniques I'd learned in class to make a cake. This was really my first attempt at fondant beads and making a cluster of daisies. The cake is a moist white cake and is layered with vanilla pudding and sliced bananas. I don't suggest using fresh fruit unless you plan to deliver your cake the day it's finished or the next if you're using fondant to cover it (since you don't want to refrigerate a fondant covered cake. This cake was put together the night before it was delivered. EVERYBODY was ecstatic over the mix of flavors.
I had so much fun making this cake and yet I couldn't believe how much work went into making it. The cake was a moist white cake. The filling for the bottom tier was a blackberry jelly mixed with cherry jello (dry) and a little bit of butter cream to smooth it together. The top tier is layered with chocolate pudding. The fondant is a homemade marshmallow fondant with Hershey's special dark cocoa mix. The roses are violet and purple and are made from regular marshmallow fondant. For the chocolate lovers, out there, this cake was enough to tempt the weakest chocoholic in the crowd.
I had just finished a break between course #2 and the Fondant/Gum Paste course and two women in my Pierce County Crochet Guild had babies only about 3 weeks apart. So, we did a "Meet the Babies" party/shower for the two of them and, of course, I just HAD to make a cake. I'll send a picture of the side view with the linking toys on in another post.
Here's one that shows more of the flowers. Again, I really loved making this cake. This one made 'even me' look like a pro!
I absolutely loved this cake and got so many compliments. Boy, did that boost my ego! I guess I'll have to add the pictures of other views separately. I wish I could do them all together.
A friend asked me to make her boyfriend's daughter a birthday cake. What luck I was in! Not only was I about to make a cake for my class, but the white icing and roses on the Final cake in course 1 was exactly what she wanted. So, I made a combination of German chocolate and Devil's food cakes and layered it with vanilla pudding and slices of banana (as the birthday girl requested). Other than having to squeeze in everything they wanted on the cake, I was very pleased with the outcome.
Please keep in mind that I've spent most of the past 20 years as an over the road truck driver and I just didn't have room for a mixer or convection oven in my truck. But, considering all that, it didn't turn out bad. As my wonderful instructor says, "At the end of the day, everybody's just gonna look at it and say, 'Oh good! Cake! Cut it!'.".
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