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Inside is white cake with chocolate hazelnut mousse and chocolate buttercream. All decorations are MMF (even Mr. Ducky!), with luster dust on the bubbles to make 'em shiny. Bad piping is all me =) Thanks to all the CC decorators for the inspiration/incredibly cute idea! I wouldn't have thought of this on my own.
Cake is frosted in buttercream (poorly!) with fondant decorations. Most flowers were free-hand, but I used a cutter for the smallest ones. The Crate and Barrel plates were my inspiration.
This 3D molded bunny cake was baked in an old pan set I inherited from my mom's pan collection. I didn't bake it long enough and forgot about doweling, so after I piped buttercream "fur" onto it and it sat overnight, I opened my cake cover to discover that bunny had "plopped" over onto its side. Unfortunately, I only got photos AFTER I attempted to fix it with coconut five minutes before our Easter egg hunt party. Lesson learned for next time.
9" round, buttercream with fondant penguins for my daughter's first birthday. There's even an imposter bunny rabbit "penguin" as a shout out to a shirt.woot long-time derby contender.
I made this cake for a friend's one-year old birthday party. The party was Winnie the Pooh theme. The cake is lemon with raspberry filling and white buttercream, covered in marshmallow fondant. I used 10, 9, 8, and 6 inch layers and the dome on top is a bowl. The door is a cupcake. I modeled the bees out of MMF.
I made this cake for my daughter's princess birthday party. The bottom tier is an 8-inch square and the top tier is a 6-inch round. The cake is strawberry with white chocolate ganache, covered in marshmallow fondant. I made the towers out of a cake cone on top of a cardboard tube, with sugar cones painted pink with food color for the roof. The princess figurines are from a deco-pak, and Ariel's "water" is blue piping gel.
This is three layers of carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I stacked an 8" round, a 6" round, and the top was baked in a metal mixing bowl I have. I carved a little off the sides of the 8 and 6 inch layers to make them more rounded and beehive-like. The cake is covered in marshmallow fondant and the bees are MMF as well, with 20 gauge wire to make them "fly." The grass is cream cheese frosting piped with a grass tip. This was a practice cake for a 1-year-old's Winnie the Pooh themed birthday party.
Like a dummy I didn't take a picture of the Pink Care Bear cake before it was cut! The Cheer Bear cake was for my daughter's first birthday, and then for her second birthday, she requested a Funshine Bear cake. He didn't turn out as well as Cheer Bear, but I included him anyways. Both cakes are made with a 1980's Wilton Care Bear cake pan that my mom used for one of my birthday cakes when I was a kid. I piped all the decorations with buttercream and used Wilton paste colors.
I did not make this cake, but it was made for my baby shower by a good friend. She used the Wilton baby carriage pan and Wilton fondant with black and white buttercream decorations. I think she did an awesome job and I thought others might benefit from seeing her work.
I made this kinda-ugly cake for my brother's birthday (hey, guys don't care what it looks like as long as it's tasty, right?) I used a guitar-shaped pan that I got from my mom. I think she got the pan from my grandmother, so who knows how old it is! I piped the decorations with buttercream using star and round tips.
I made this simple, two-layer 9" round cake for a friend's baby shower. It's all buttercream tinted with Wilton paste colors. The flowers are piped on. I just wrote the baby's name on the bottom because I didn't have room for "Welcome" and it looked blank there ;-p I know it's not really baby-ish, but it suited the mom's style and fit with the sophisticated theme of the shower.
This baby block cake was for a friend's baby shower. To make the cube, I baked several layers of round pound cake and stacked them with raspberry jam filling. I cut a square template out of waxed paper and used that to carve off the round edges to make the cake into a cube. I piped the decorations using buttercream and a star tip. To make the letters, I used alphabet cookie cutters that I had and pressed them into my buttercream crumb coat. The baby's name was Elliott, so that's why the "E" is on top.
I made this cake for a friend who had just found out she'd been promoted to Master Sgt in the Air Force. Her line number was 352, which I piped into the blue field. The stripes are carved from a large sheet cake. To get the proportions right, I printed the Master Sgt stripes out on the computer and used toothpicks to mark everything out in my buttercream crumb coat. The decorations are piped buttercream using a star tip.
I made this cake for a friend's baby shower, which was lady bug themed. I used the Wilton soccer ball pan for the body and a metal mixing bowl I have for the head (I'm a big believer in multi-taskers in the kitchen, b/c I don't have a lot of extra cash for buying special tools you use just once). The decoration is all buttercream, piped on with a star tip.
This cake was made for a baby dedication ceremony for five babies. This was my first attempt at using fondant. I made MMF and had to cover up a LOT of boo-boos, but I learned a lot and it turned out pretty well for a first try. The inside is devil's food with chocolate raspberry ganache and vanilla buttercream. The layers are 9" and 6" rounds -- I wanted it to fit on my crystal cake stand!
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