Giraffe In A Tutu

This was for my daughter's baby shower. The theme was "tutus" (she used to be a dancer). My daughter is certain her baby will be a dancer but my son-in-law (who is a soccer player/fanatic) is just as certain she will play soccer. My daughter also loves giraffes, so............this is what I came up with. A giraffe wearing a tutu with her soccer ball near at hand. The top tier of the cake is also wearing a tutu. Hope you enjoy.

Southern Magnolia

Gumpaste magnolia blossom. Petals are wired. Dusted with petal dust after assembled.

Jada's 1St Birthday

French vanilla with buttercream on top and fondant on the bottom. Baked with the Wilton giant cupcake pan. All details are fondant/gumpaste except ribbon.

Hunter's 1St Bd Cars Cake

Cake is a 10" french vanilla with pineapple chiffon filling, covered in WC ganache and then fondant. Cars on top were purchased, everything else is gumpaste or fondant. Banner was hand painted (which is why my checkerboards are two different sizes). Inspiration from many cakes here on CC.

Mickey Mouse 1St Birthay

French vanilla with strawberry filling. The MM hat on top is rice cereal treats. The figurines are plastic (don't mess with Disney), all other decorations fondant/gumpaste. Inspiration came from the tons of Mickey cakes on CC.

Princess Baby Shower

French vanilla cake with peach filling. Not your typical baby shower colors or theme but this is what they wanted.

Julie's Baby Shower

For a friend's daughter. WASC cake w/peach filling. Iced in white chocolate ganache under fondant. Her theme for the nursery is monkeys so she wanted that theme for the shower as well. All decorations are either fondant or gumpaste except the monkey who is modeling chocolate. This was inspired by another cake here on CC by cakesandcandy and by a cake in the book Confetti Cakes for Kids.

Gavin's Baby Cake

For a good friend's baby shower. Cake is strawberry w/strawberry filling. Iced in strawberry buttercream and covered with MFF. All decorations fondant or gumpaste.

Beau's Baby Cake

Cake for a friend of a friend. They wanted it to match the prints used on the invitation

Glenda Galvez Gerber Daisies

From a class w/Glenda Galvez. Loved making the daisies

My Glenda Galvez Rose

I was able to take a Glenda Galvez rose class and this was my full rose. I actually broke my bud and half-open rose before I could get pictures of them.

Amie's Storybook Cake

3 layer lemon w/raspberry buttercream filling. All decorations are gumpaste and border around cake is edible image. The daisy was from my Glenda Galvez daisy class.

Flower Power Cake

Debbie Brown class project. This is actually from her wedding cake book. Learned a lot of new techniques on this cake and got to practice figure sculpting. Those hands take some practice. The "LOVE" topper plaque is made from a special cutter set that Debbie provided.

Naughty Sprite Cake

This is my Debbie Brown class project. This cake was the most fun one I have ever made. It was my grand daughter's birthday cake. She loved it. I learned a lot about people modeling from this class. (Debbie's hobby was sculpting before she got into cake decorating.)

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With This Ring Bridal Shower Cake

For my daughter's bridal shower. 10" & 8" squares. Her choice of confetti cake w/Bavarian cream filling. White chocolate ganache under fondant (Jennifer Dontz recipe). The decorations were gumpaste and fondant. The initial on top I did freehand (my first attempt at that) and it mimics the wedding invitation. This was inspired by two cakes I saw in a forum post but I can't remember the names of the decorators (sorry) but it was the forum post about the cake looking too much like the picture the bride provided. My cake cannot compete with those two cakes as they were absolutely beautiful but this is my take on it.

Jessica & Charlie's Shower Cake

This was for my daughter's shower. Her fiance is a soccer player/fanatic and she is the ultimate fashionista. I wanted to reflect that but also to have a pretty cake as well so I decided to combine two designs I liked a lot from fellow CCers. Thank you to Makeitmemorable and jsmith for their great inspirations. The cakes were 10" bottom chocolate w/chocolate bavarian cream filling, the top was 8" french vanilla w/Bavarian cream filling. Ganache under fondant (Jennifer Dontz's recipe). The soccer ball and shoe were modeled with gumpaste and mounted on a covered piece of cakeboard because nothing else would have been able to support the weight. All other decorations were fondant or gumpaste.

Lanie's Baby Shower Cake

8" & 4" covered in fondant w/fondant accents. Bottom cake is marble w/white chocolate ganache and fresh strawberries filling. Top cake is sugar-free vanilla (mom-to-be has gestational diabetes) with a sugar-free icing under a very thin layer of fondant. The sugar-free icing was terrible to work with and didn't look too good under the fondant but served the purpose. I forgot to take my little foam pieces out of the top daisy before taking my pics!

Jennifer's Anenomes

I made these anenomes as the topper for my best friend's daughter's wedding cake. It was an out of town wedding so I didn't want to deal with transporting a cake 4 hours away so they had a local baker make the cake (which was gorgeous) and I placed the anenomes on top when I arrived. It worked out pretty well. They are made from gumpaste.

Jennifer's Bridal Shower Cake

White cake with bc icing. Edible image on top. Scene around the sides represent Colorado mountains with a gondola suspended over the mountains and the couple inside the gondola. Her fiance proposed to her during a gondola ride over Steamboat Springs, CO. last summer. Mountains, tram towers, gondola done in fondant.

Jennifer's Victoria Secret Lingerie Shower Cake

This was for a lingerie shower / bachelorette party. Bottom tier lemon cake w/lemon curd filling. Top tier "funfetti" cake. Both cakes covered in fondant over ganache. The little bride is gumpaste. All accents done in fondant/gumpaste. Thank you to Aaris for the inspiration.

Jennifer's Baby Shower Cake

10" & 6" French vanilla filled with pineapple chiffon filling. Iced w/white chocolate ganache and covered in MFF. All decorations gumpaste. This cake was patterned after the invitation. The leopard design was hand painted. The baby was from a mold and detailed with petal dust. The flowers are hydrangeas. The letters were a cutter set that was made for the letters to be interlocking.

Baby Girl And Bear

This figurine was made in a Ximena class. It was a lot of fun.

Bible Cake #4

This was actually for a display for my cake club's annual extravaganza and it won the People's Choice Award. My first cake related award and very special to me because it was from my fellow cakers. The teacup was modeled after the one featured in the last issue of ACD magazine. All of the components are gumpaste except the lenses on the glasses which are gelatin.

Sarah's Castle

This was for my grand daughter's 4th birthday and she loved it. It was the product of a Kelly Lance class. The castle is a technique I have never done before called bas relief (kind of a 2-D effect) done in gumpaste. The background and details are handpainted and all the accents are done in gumpaste.

A Little Love For My Friends, Part One

Chocolate cake torted and filled with chocolate ganache and iced with whipped ganache. The lace/scroll heart on top is piped chocolate. This was a practice cake that I did for my co-workers on Valentines Day following a chocolate modeling class I had attended.