Garden Gnome With Birthday Cake
This was my competition entry for the "That Takes The Cake" Sugar Art Show and Cake Competition in Austin, TX 2012. This was in the Adult Advanced division, Special Techniques (Not-On-A-Cake) category. No win this year, but like always, I had a blast! He is mostly sculpted with modeling chocolate. Look at the blog in my profile to see all the in-progress photos and details of how I made him.
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Critter Crunch Birthday Cake
Chocolate cake carved to look like Biggs, a character from Critter Crunch (video game). Covered in MMF. Facial features are narrow rolls of fondant sandwiched between the IMBC and the final layer of fondant, then used tools to define. Eyes made glossy by brushing on 50/50 corn syrup/Everclear. "Happy Birthday" piped with royal icing.
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St. Patrick's Day Wedding
6, 8, 10, and 12 inch round dummies. White sides are modeling chocolate. All green and black are a 50/50 mix of fondant and modeling chocolate. Stripes and black trim around damask were extruded. Damask was hand-cut from a template. Inspired by wedding plans of my brother-in-law for 2012.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
8" square dummy with frozen buttercream transfer of a promotional image from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series. I found the image on the internet and flipped it in Photoshop. I dropped out the colors in the image and basically had something that looked like a coloring book page. I traced with black using tip #2. For the colors I did like a "paint-by-number" with thin colored buttercream using a paintbrush. All buttercream was Wilton's Decorator's Icing from a tub.
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Sunflower W/ Oreo
DH Dark Chocolate Fudge cuppie with IMBC icing and Oreo cookie on top. Many thanks to KHalstead for sharing her info on cupcake bouquets. The cuppie is sitting in a 5 oz. plastic cup inside a 4" flower pot. Cupcake inspired by sunflower design in the book "Hey, Cupcake" and a similar design by Martha Stewart.
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Maneki Neko
Sculpted cake from several rounds of WASC cake w/o the A. Covered in fondant from Toba Garrett's recipe. Fondant ears and coin. Coin coated in gold luster dust + confectExtruded fondant for facial markings and collar. Coated in 50/50 corn syrup and Everclear for shine. This was my entry for the "Adult Beginner - Sculpted Cakes" category at the That Takes the Cake 2010 Austin cake show.
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Calvin & Hobbes
Cake just for fun! I wanted to try decorating with boiled icing (a.k.a. Italian Meringue) because I thought it might look like snow. MMF accents modeled after the famous Calvin & Hobbes "Snowman House of Horror" 8" round, dark chocolate cake (Duncan Hines), filled and iced with boiled icing.
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Dragon Age (Video Game) Cakes
I made these a while back for the development team of "Dragon Age" (video game on PC, XBox 360, and PS3). Cake on the left was French Vanilla (box mix) with chocolate American buttercream (Wilton recipe). Cake on the right was Red Velvet (box mix) with vanilla American buttercream (Wilton recipe). They were topped with a square of MMF fondant decorated to look like the game's loading screen.
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Engagement Cake W/ Brown & Orange Swirls
Chocolate cake (box mix) with coffee flavored IMBC filling and iced with chocolate buttercream (Wilton recipe). Topped with painted fondant and chocolate BC shell borders. This cake doubled as my Wilton Course 3, Class 2 cake and as a gift to my friend who was getting married.
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Engagement Cake Designed After Wedding Invitations
Cake for my friend who's getting married this weekend ... so a pre-wedding cake? 8" round French Vanilla cake (box mix). Chocolate buttercream filling and icing (Wilton recipe using butter-flavored Crisco). Ivory marshmallow fondant with royal icing decorations and shell border. I free-hand piped designs similar to what was on their wedding invitations.
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Welcome Mat: House Warming Cake
Vanilla cake (box mix) filled with cream cheese frosting (tub). Iced with green buttercream (Wilton recipe) using tip #233 (grass tip) on top. White picket fence made with marshmallow fondant and royal icing. Welcome mat was brown fondant with black royal icing. Template of welcome mat can be found in the Sketches gallery.