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Our friend requested a girly girl cake and this is what I came up. It's a homemade yellow cake with Swiss Meringue frosting and fondant/gumpaste accents.
I made this for my in-laws 40th anniversary party. The top layer is a white cake with SMBC, The middle layer is strawberry cake with SMBC and the bottom is chocolate with SMBC and chocolate ganache. It was my first mostly successful batch of MMF for covering the cake. I need some more practice on making it, but am pleased with the results. The road is carved and all decorations are made with MMF, gumpaste and rice krispies, minus the car on top. That came from Wally World.
This was for a Star Wars party for brothers. It's the Light side of the force. I had a hard time coming up with the concept for this one. The bottom layer depicts my interpretation of Tatooine. There is even a gumpaste/fondant sand monster on the cake board. All other figures are toys. The cake is vanilla with vanilla buttercream.
Two tier chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream covere in fondant. The figures are toys. For all of you diehard Star Wars fans who want to say "There are not 7 episodes!", I know! We had a comment on that at the party. But the birthday boy turned 7 and that is what he got! I have to admit, Star Wars cakes are tough to do. There are so many directions that the cakes can take.
Chocolate cake with buttecream icing. I made the cupcake wrappers from scrapbooking paper to match the shower theme.
I was really happy with how this turned out. I used homemade fondant for the first time and it was my first experience with using melted chocolate pieces. It's a chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
My daughter wanted an Addam's family cake. I made a cool topper out of royal icing and it messed up the day I had to put it on the cake. I scrambled and made this haunted house out of rice krispy treats. My recipe didn't firm up enough and the house kept falling leaning. But she enjoyed it. It's a spice cake (her favorite) with cream cheese icing.
I made this for a breast cancer raffle. I had three cakes to do that weekend and family coming in from out of town. I wish I had had more time to make it a little more polished.
My friends daughter saw the cake done by blharper and wanted it for her ice cream party. The bottom layer is chocolate and the top is vanilla. Each is filled with a vanilla buttercream.
I made this cake for my daughter's 2nd birthday. I also made an identical one for my niece. It's a homemade yellow cake with buttercream and covered in fondant. The tiara is made of gumpaste.
My daughter and niece shared a birthday party this year and I made three separate cakes. The carriage cake pulled together the princess theme. Covering the round ball was challenging but worth the effort. I was inspired my many examples here on CC.
This was originally to be part of my daughter and neices birthday cake, but the party had to be moved out. I found out that the party needed to be moved and decided to finish this smaller cake for our at home dinner celebration. It's my first pillow cake an I was able to take advantage of my new extruder gun. It's a yellow cake with buttercream, covered in fondant. I have more pictures at http://debssweetspot.blogspot.com/2011/08/pillow-cake-and-tiara.html .
I made this for a cake walk at my daughters school. I had higher hopes for the decorations, but I'm two weeks away from having a baby and decided not to pull out my fondant stuff. Instead, I put on some small dots and mini rose swirls. The cake is 6 layers of white cake that is dyed to look like a rainbow. If I could figure out how to upload more than one picture, I'd post the before icing pictures. The layers looked amazing! I have additional pictures here - http://debssweetspot.blogspot.com/2011/05/rainbow-cake-with-swirl-rose.html .
This is a chocolate cake with chocolate filling covered in buttercream. The decorations are made out of fondant. I put a little zipper on the side and the girls at the part kept trying to gently unzip the bag!
Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream icing, topped with fondant decorations.
This was for my nephew. The idea is based off of a cake on cc by SueB. My sister in law requested the soccer ball to be in buttercream instead of fondant. The little boy figure is my first gum paste person.
My husband and in-laws were all born in March. My in-laws were also married in March. I made this to celebrate all those events at our cookout. It's 6" round and 4 layers tall. It's a chocolate and vanilla checkerboard cake with butter cream. The decorations are fondant and gumpaste. I was going to do daffodils as otheres on CC have done, but ran out of time!
Top layer vanilla with oreo filling covered in buttercream. Bottom layer chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling covered in white buttercream. Flowers made out of gumpaste. I used the Wilton Castle Kit and decorated the pieces with royal icing and clear sanding sugar.
Fondant covered cake with gumpaste fence and name accents. I purchased the Toy Story figures to use as a decoration on the cake and so my little man would have them to enjoy after his birthday.
This was for my daughters first birthday. The pink smash cake is buttercream with fondant flowers. The cake is iced with buttercream and covered in fondant with cupcakes decorated to match.
My daughter loves animal prints and the color blue. This is her design request. I covered a candle in fondant so that it would match the cake. Top layer is strawberry with a buttercream filling. Bottom layer is chocolate with a carmel filling.
Fondant cake w' fondant accents. Cars are real toys. This is one of my first few fondant cakes. I tried to make it look like a desert scene.
The books are similar to the ones on the set. The top hat goes along with the cast's hats. I used bronze dust to scuff up the hat. All decorations except for the gold covered chocolate coins are in fondant.
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