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Beaver Dude's Birthday Cache
Yesterday was my Dad's birthday and to help him celebrate I made him a geocaching themed cake! For those of you unfamiliar with geocaching, it is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. My Dad spends a lot of time on this hobby both searching for caches as well as creating caches for other geocaching enthusiasts to find. The cake features a Beaver Dude that I created based on the name of my Dad's hiking stick and of course since he is from Saskatchewan he is a fan of the Saskatchewan Roughrider's football team. There is the international geocaching symbol carved in the face of the fallen log and a compass (in place of a GPS gadget). Hidden on the log cake among the dogwood flowers, fungi, moss and ivy is a nano cache and my Dad's custom "woodtick" cache container. To make the cake even more fun, I went old school and hid a $2 coin (wrapped in plastic) inside the cake itself and created a little poem with clues for my Dad to find his birthday "cache". My Dad had a blast finding it! TFL!
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Tranformers Bumblebee
I made this cake for my daughter's birthday last November. She is a huge fan of Bumblebee from the Transformers so this is my attempt to bring him to life in cake form. His head is RKT covered in modelling chocolate with isomalt eyes that light up. The headlights were also isomalt and looked pretty cool. The body is chocolate cake covered in modelling chocolate. TFL!
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Da Vinci In Love
I was honoured to make this cake for Sweet Magazine's Art Issue back in April. I chose the work of Leonardo Da Vinci as my inspiration. The middle tier is wrapped in an edible print of his floral sketches and the isomalt topper is based on his mathematical sketches of a dodecahedron. TFL!
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Roller Skating Birthday
I made this cake for my daughter's 10th Birthday. Since she was having her party at the roller rink we decided that it need to have a pair of cute roller skates. The roller skates are made out of fondant and gumpaste. The cake itself is an 8 inch round cake xtra deep covered in fondant.
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Harry Potter Cake
I made this Harry Potter cake for a friend's daughter who was turning 18. I tried to make it a little more sophisticated and grown up to reflect this significant milestone. 6 and 8 inch cakes covered in fondant. The sorting hat is made from RKT and is covered in fondant and accented with petal dusts. The snitch, wand and HP are fondant and the train ticket and Gryffindor crest are edible images. TFL!
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Glow In The Dark Skull Cake
I made this Halloween cake last year for a good friend who throws a big Halloween party every year. The theme of the party was "Glow in the Dark"! The eyes of the skull are LED lights that were wrapped in cling wrap and placed in the eye sockets then covered with a fondant eyeball cover. I had tried to make the bubbling brew in the cauldron glow as well using tonic water but it only had a slight glow under the black lights. TFL!
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Brave
My friend called me rather last minute in a panick for a Brave themed birthday cake for her daughter's 3rd birthday. I didn't have enough time to do something with figures so I came up with this quick buttercream cake. The base is in the colour of Merida's dress and the buttercream ruffles are to represent the forest that Merida loves to roam. Guilded royal icing Celtic style letters and piped arrows are a nod to Merida's royal Scot's background. My friend bought Brave figures to go on top. TFL!
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Green And White Floral Beauty
6, 8 (extra deep), 10, and 14 inch cakes decorated with over 200 handcrafted sugar flowers (ranunculus, hydrangeas and lily of the valley)! The 8 and 14 inch cakes had a pretty ribbed texture which is unfortunately lost in the poor lighting of this photo. The monogram on the top tier is duplicated from the wedding invitations and is hand painted with gel colours. TFL!
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Teacher Appreciation Cake 2013
I made this quartet of buttercream decorated cakes for my daughter’s school teacher appreciation luncheon. Each 6 inch cake was a different flavour; raspberry limeade cake, lemon blueberry cake, strawberry cream cake and chocolate cake. I decided to unify the cakes by decorating them all with vanilla buttercream in different piped patterns and a gumpaste gerbera daisy to match the theme “Thanks a bunch!”. TFL!
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Coral Treasure
I have wanted to design something for one of these challenges for a long time, but time constraints have always made it impossible. I'm still short on time and not able to design a whole cake, but I decided a sugar cookie would work well. This sugar cookie is decorated with MMF, petal and lustre dusts as well as a bit of 24k gold highlight. I drew my inpiration from two of the photos provided: Oddly shaped green coral because of its stunning colours; and Camouflaged in yellow because I love sea horses! TFL!