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Cookie Jar Cake
85th birthday cake. Mom and dad got this cookie jar for a wedding present 65 years ago. It is a treasured item that was only "cold painted", meaning the paint was not fired on, and very soon all the paint was washed off. Mom has repainted the colors on the cookie jar many times over the years. Our family sees that little chick as an icon. I carved the cake from memory because it was a surprise party. It is a towered cake, supported by two levels of support. Every third layer has the straws/cake board support. The head was built separate from the body and then placed on at the party. There is a dowel rod driven down the center of the body but not the head. Many of the guests thought it was part of the decorations. They had no ideat it was the cake until we got ready to cut it. On the second photo, the recipe cards and beehive measuring cups are made using tylose-added fondant and the writing on them is done with food color pens
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Hoot Owl "whooo Loves You Baby
Hootie Owl Themed Baby Boy Shower. 1 Layer 12", double 10", double 8" and double 6" to feed 75. Fondant with gumpaste topper. The color on these pictures is off. It is Serbert Lime Green. The middle layer is food color painted by using the small harliquin embossing sheet. I also did matching sugar cookies for this cake.
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Whooo Loves You Baby! Hootie Owl Shower
These hugh decorated sugar cookies are part of the Hootie Owl baby shower theme I did (the party napkin is 6 inches square!). Royal icing dries hard enough to stack cookies without damaging them but it is soft like a candy coating and tastes sooo good. I use the meringue powder recipe because the eggs in the powder are pasturized, but you can make it with egg whites instead if you don't have the powder.
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Calla Lilly Wedding Cake
This was my first wedding cake. I learned a lot about all types of cakes with this one. One thing I learned was sometimes the individual tiers can be too heavy for a single cardboard; lifting it to place it on the bottom layer caused the sides to bulge slightly. I thought it was horrific but no one looked there. They saw the cake as a whole instead of noticing that fault, but I definately learned that lesson! The great thing was that this was a HUGH wedding it totally launched my wedding business. Cake size: 16,14,12,8. The bottom tier was 4-layers and the others were 3. The blue "sparklers" are gumpaste covered 20-guage florists wire.
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Baby Boy Shower
My client's baby shower had started out to be "Shopping Mom" and then morphed into rubber rain boots and umbrellas. The blending of the two themes were a little more difficult, but this was the ultimate sketch that my clients chose. It is buttercream with fondant decoration; gumpaste rainboots, umbrella and shopping girl. It would have been prettier done in marshmallow fondant, but they really wanted buttercream. (When people have been ruined by the taste of Wilton fondant it is really hard to get them to even try marshmallow fondant.)