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Santa Christmas Tree Farm

This was a competition cake using a styrofoam base and cereal treats for Santa and the trees. The cake was entered in the 2017 North Carolina State fair under the "professional" category where I won the blue ribbon in the category and the "Best in Show" for the professional class.

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Gnome Cake

This is tall cake (17") made of red velvet with cream cheese frosting. The body is cake and the arms, legs, and head are cereal treats covered in white chocolate and fondant. I wanted the face to have as much expression as possible.

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Sewing Birthday Cake

This design is not original but I loved the chance to make it. The cake is covered in fondant with the sewing machine made of cereal treats and fondant.

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Black And White Wedding Cake

Wedding cake with custom topper with stenciled pattern in royal icing.

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Violin Christmas Cake

This was a small holiday cake for a family gathering. The violin was from a wedding cake book from Kerry Vincent.

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Piano Graduation Cake

Cake for a young pianist who was graduating from high school.

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Hiking Birthday Cake

This was a cake for my son's 19th birthday - he was into hiking and the outdoors. The flavor was maple with maple buttercream. The little figure on the cake also went with us to NY for some photo opportunities!

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Market Day Wedding Cake

This was a cake for the decorated cakes competition at our state fair. The cake was covered in fondant and the fruit details were hand-painted and based on the retired china pattern "market day". The fruit was cereal treats with fondant and painted details.

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Polka Dot Shower

This was a dark chocolate cake with chocolate fudge buttercream for a co-worker's baby shower.

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Hello Kitty!

This was a chocolate cake with chocolate fudge buttercream. Fondant with fondant details.

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Peacock Birthday Cake

This was a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. The feathers were made with buttercream.

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Nyu Cake

This was a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for my son who was headed to NYU (far from NC).

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Oklahoma! Cake

This was a cake I made for an "Oklahoma" cast party. The hat was make of a gumpaste-fondant mix.

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Sweet Sixteen Leap Year Cake

This was a chocolate and vanilla cake for a girl who's birthday was Feb. 29 (thus references to her turning "4"). Fondant covered cake with fondant accents.

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Don't Bug The Daisies Cake

This was a chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream frosting. The design is based on the book "Don't Bug the Daisies", part of the "Bunnies by the Bay" series.

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Portmeirion Botanic Garden Anniversary Cake

This was a chocolate fudge cake with double chocolate frosting covered in fondant. The painting is based on the Portmeirion Botanic Garden china pattern.

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Beach Birthday Cake

This was a beach-themed birthday cake with painted fondant and fondant details with brown sugar sand.

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Flowers In A Watering Can

This cake is based on an edible arrangement my husband sent me. I decided to make a cake after seeing the cute watering can. The cake was french vanilla with vanilla buttercream. Flowers were made from fondant.

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Guess How Much I Love You

This is a baby shower cake based upon the book "Guess How Much I Love You". White buttercream fondant is the base on which I painted the scene. Around the perimeter of the cake is text from the book.

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Christmas Birthday Cake

This was a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing and was the monthly birthday cake for my work colleagues. Fondant bow and holly accents but the rest is frosting.

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Painted Fall Cake

This was a delicious pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese icing. The picture was from one I took in the NC mountains many years ago. The cupcakes featured a fondant pumpkin pie slice based on a tutorial on the cakecentral site.

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Basketball Fever

This is a chocolate fudge cake with peanut butter icing. I made this cake for my division at work who are gathering to watch the ACC tournament. I tried to keep the cake "nondenominational" as I know folks can be fanatical about their favorite team to the point they won't eat a cake that celebrates "the enemy". For the record: go Duke!

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Butterfly Birthday Cake

This is a WASC cake flavored with maple syrup and maple-flavored icing. It tasted like pancakes. Hee! I was testing out the Cricut cake cutter.

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Jungle Babies Cake

This is a cake based off the Nojo Jungle Babies collection (specifically the rug). The cake is standard WASC with buttercream. The cake topper is made from fondant.

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Caramel Apple Birthday Cake

This is a harvest pound cake (apples, walnuts, etc.) with caramel buttercream icing.

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Penguin Birthday Cake

I make a birthday cake each month for my department at work and this is the January cake. this was my first attempt at gumpaste figurines and I used the 2 minute penguin instructions which were great except if I did this again, I would make the eyes bigger and closer together. The cake is WASC (awesome!!!!) and buttercream covered in fondant. The snowflakes are fondant with royal icing and sugar crystals.

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