Italian Meringue Buttercream Wedding Cake With Gum Paste Peony
This is a buttercream cake with an emphasis on organic ingredients and natural food colors. The flowers are made using gumpaste but either kept natural in color or used all natural powdered colors to dust. I also used corn meal to coat the round yellow balls seen in the sprays
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Indian Ballerina Inspiration First Birthday Cake
I was tasked by a friend to create a first birthday cake based on a contemporary art painting of a ballerina on pointe from India with a bell anklet on. The colors were to be pink or gold. The shoes are completely gum paste hang molded. I tried to recreate the look of the bracelet on the bottom layer using sugar pearls that were painted with gold dust.
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Cascading Petal White Wedding Cake
This is a wedding cake I made for my sister in laws wedding. It is 4 tiers consisting of a 6,8,10,12 inch rounds. Each tier was 4 inches except the second to top was a little bit taller due to needing 3 layers. The center flower was a gum paste rose and more gum paste rose petals glued to cake with royal icing gradually decreasing in size. I used carma fondant and piped my boarders with a size 6 round tip
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Peopny Wedding Cake Colors Were Eggplant And Ivory
This is a wedding cake my mother and I made for my Aunts friends wedding. Her only request was her wedding colors are Eggplant and ivory, and also that the brides name was Rose and she is not a fan of roses haha... with that being said I made a spray of peonies and filler flowers
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Science Theme 6Th Birthday Cake
This is a science theme birthday cake I amde for my sons friends birthday. everything on the cake including the microscope and bunsen burner is made from gumpaste. The flask on top had a plastic tube inserted into it which we later filled with dry ice and water to create a fog. I orginially tinted the fondant with electric purple and got an swful color I was not happy with because of consistency. So I later airbrushed the cake with purple but it was a challenge because I had already placed the lime green.. Another lesson learned HAHA
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Cinderella Cupcakes
Cupcakes I made to accompany one of the cinderella cakes I made. The pink is fondant cut with a cookie cutter and then I used the tip of a round piping tip and made holes in each scallop. The dress and crown are gumpaste made from molds I got on etsy.com and then painted with diluted gel color and vodka once they were dry
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2Nd Birthday Minnie Cake
This was another cake I made for my daughters 2nd birthday. The plaque was cut with a cricut cake and I used wiltons sugar sheets for it as well. I used an edible marker for her name which I later noticed was crooked :) Oh and I added a large silver 2 at the top with a little minnie head on it made from gumpaste and painted with luster dust
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Stripes Birthday Cake
This is a cake I made for my daughters 2nd birthday using the technique I learned from Baking arts extrodinary stripes dvd. It was time consuming but I thought it turned out well! Inside I tinted 4 layers alternating pink and purple with white buttercream http://www.bakingarts.net/modeling-chocolate-dvds.html
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Handy Manny Cake
Oh.. this was a bit of a nightmare project I took on for my sons 3rd birthday. I made the tools mostly of fondant giving them more than a week to dry and they just wouldn't... I learned my lesson and then it drier with a horrible texture and I had just bought an airbrush so use it one this cake as my FIRST airbrush project.. so that was tragic. Ian did not care he loved it and it tasted good!
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Girls Communion Cake
This is a cake I made a year ago for my nieces first communion. It was my first attempt at making gum paste flowers. most were covered with luster dust and others I sprayed with an airbrush. the cross on the top was actually a balloon weight my mother found which saved me time on making one since the party was in Ny and I live in Maryland...