artsywest's Cake Central Gallery

artsywest's Cake Central Gallery

Camping 101

Camping 101

My boss' wife asked me to make some camping/ golfing cupcakes for his 60th birthday. So be it! I made some character cupcakes, a couple of which looked a little like he and his wife. I made one of Cliff just waking up in the morning with bedhead hair, morning beard, and little red hearts on his jammies. The one of his wife was in her sleepng bag with a sleeping mask and little pink rollers in her hair. Along with them were some bits of wisdom, like never leave your marshmallow unattended, never hide the cadybars in you sleeping bag, and never never set your glasses on a rock. Such fun! TFL

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Wedding Cake With Purple Pansies

Wedding Cake With Purple Pansies

I love pansies, so I was thrilled when the bride and groom wanted a purple and white wedding cake.

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A Snowball Wedding

A Snowball Wedding

my neice wanted me to do a holiday wedding cake that she saw in Martha Stewart's magazine. It was fun and I thought it turned out kind of cute!

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Red Roses And Callas

Red Roses And Callas

callas and roses- what could be more fun?

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Another 80Th Birthday Cake

Another 80Th Birthday Cake

Two 80th birthday parties in one week! This one was for a family friend. this is a lemon cake with lemon filling. I made the fondant and gumpaste flowers weeks ahead.

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Purple Passion

Purple Passion

This was a cake for my mother-in-law;s 80th birthday. She loves purple, so purple it is! She also loves butterflies so we had to have a few of those.

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Salvaged Disaster

Salvaged Disaster

I did this wedding cake for my cousin's daughter. I made the mistake of assembling the cake at home, trusting in the cake's dowling to hold it together. This cake was originally a four layer cake! We had to travel three hours to get to our destination and everything went well for the first 1 1/2 hours, then I noticed small cracks appearing...then big cracks...then chunks of cake started falling off the bottom layer. In order to save the top I grabbed it and moved it to the side. When we finally arrived I had 1 hour to totally remove all the draping and flowers from the original design and start over making new drapery to cover the cracks and thumbprints that were all over the cake! Luckily I had extra fondant and flowers along because there was a whole lot of patching to do. We were able to use the bottom layer by cutting the chunks up and serving it. ( I called it roadkill cake) Whew! I don't want to ever do that again. Lesson learned.

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Calla Lilies

Calla Lilies

I'm in the mood for spring! All flowers and leaves are fondant and gum paste mix. Flowers have been painted with food color. I tried something new- A border of mixed size little balls- I kind of like the effect.

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Pink Blush And Champagne

Pink Blush And Champagne

I had a lot of fondant woes with this cake but I finally managed to finish with a couple of late night sessions. Cake top is gumpaste roses on a styrofoam ball, and the drape is fondant. Brush embroidery is done with white royal icing on an off white fondant backround.

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Autumn Cookies

Autumn Cookies

Cookies with fondant decorations.

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Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate

Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate

Everything's coming up chocolate. Chocolate cake,filling, chocolate fondant flowers and scrolley thingys, and a whopper border. Whew! Good thing the birthday kid likes chocolate.

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Teapot Cake

Teapot Cake

This was a little oval cake I made for a friend's b-day. She loves teapots so I thought it would be perfect. The teapot is made out of white chocolate that I made from a mold. This was a fun cake to make.

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Anniversary Cake

Anniversary Cake

This was an anniversary cake for a couple's 45th wedding anniversary. The 45th anniversary is the ruby anniversary, so I made various shades of reds and pinks. Flowers are fondant on buttercream icing.

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Baby Shower Cookies

Baby Shower Cookies

Fun cookies I made for a friend's baby shower

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Tonka Truck

Tonka Truck

This was a cake for a two year old who loves trucks. I took one of the grandkid's tonka trucks out of the garage, set it on the counter, and started drawing! Then I transfered my drawing onto a sheet of gumpaste , let it dry, and then painted it with food coloring. The rocks were the fun part- they're just swirled, rock colored fondant. I heard the cake was a hit - Noah liked his truck!

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Yellow Flower Garden

Yellow Flower Garden

I was in a yellow mood so I made a yellow birthday cake for a friend. ( then I found out it was her favorite color!) Flowers and leaves are all fondant and have been painted with food coloring. TFL!

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Roses With Fresh Fruit

Roses With Fresh Fruit

This was for a friend's birthday. He turned 50 so he wanted a jubilee cake. (In Jewish tradition, every 50 years is a year of jubilee) Flowers are all fondant mixed with fresh fruit. The edges of the cake are vanilla wafer roll cookies-yum! TFL!

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Chocolate Guitar

Chocolate Guitar

I did this cake for my nephew's 30th b-day. The guitar is rice krispie treats with chocolate fondant flowers. I sign all my cakes with a ladybug and you can see him in the closeup picture. ( a chocolate ladybug of course) the edges of the cake were done with chocolate cream wafer rolls cut in half.

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Pirate Topper

Pirate Topper

I made these figures for a Wilton demonstration in the Michaels store where I work. The inspiration came from their new 2009 Wilton yearbook. All figures are made out of rice krispie treats covered in fondant. Everything is edible except the jolly roger flag. ( Wilton makes that- available at Michaels stores) (TFL!)

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Gerbera Daisies

Gerbera Daisies

This is a closeup of one of the gerbera daisies on a wedding cake I did recently. They were tricky, so I don't care if I don't see another one for a long time!

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Pink Roses

Pink Roses

This was my final cake for my wilton course 3 project. Luckily it was also my mother-in-law's birthday so we had occasion to use it! She didn't mind that it looked a bit "weddingish". Cake is covered in fondant, with fondant flowers and leaves.

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Wedding Cookies 1

Wedding Cookies 1

Here are some wedding cookies I made for a friend's shower. They are all covered with fondant , some are painted with food coloring, then fondant flowers are added with royal frosting details.

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Carrot Cuppies

Carrot Cuppies

These are carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and a fondant carrot on top!

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Easter Eggs & Bunnies

Easter Eggs & Bunnies

I had a little fun with fondant

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Easter Cookies

Easter Cookies

Here are a few fun things I tried this year

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Monkey Business

Monkey Business

This was a birthday cake for a one year old's birthday. I made a smash cake for the birthday boy and this cake was for the "big folks". It took several days, but I had a ton of fun making the birds, snake, peeled banana, and of course, the monkeys! I used the many great jungle cakes here on CC for my inspiration. TFL!

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