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The birthday boy's favourite book is Brown Bear, Brown Bear, so this cake features animals from the book cut out of marbled modelling chocolate. The cake is chocolate praline with whipped chocolate praline filling with a chocolate ganache crumb coat, covered in fondant. On a personal note, this is also my 6-month-old son's favourite book and when I showed him the cake he smiled from ear to ear and tried to grab at it! Since we read this every day can recite it from memory, I made sure to arrange the animals in the same order as the book.
London themed cake for friends moving there. Various London landmarks surround the cake in modelling chocolate with buttercream backfill (Lauren Kitchens technique from her Craftsy Cityscape Cakes class).
Chocolate cake with ombré ruffles in buttercream topped with a carvers oversized cupcake as the smash cake and wire beaded accents.
Piped snowflake design on chai spiced sugar cookies
Zebra print chocolate cupcakes and leopard print chai spiced sugar cookies for a wedding shower
Square marble cake with marbled buttercream/chocolate frosting on too of each tier and wrapped in modelling chocolate. The topper is gum paste.
Fondant pleating, rosette and pearls
Birthday present cake covered in modelling chocolate and gum paste bow. Texture was created using textured scrapbook paper as a texture plate and buttercream backfilling (Lauren Kitchen's technique from craftsy class)
These cupcakes were for a bridal shower. The wedding will be a destination wedding, so I tried to go for a tropical type fantasy flower in the shower theme colours. The cupcakes are lemon with raspberry filling and vanilla SMBC. The flowers are modelling chocolate, so much tastier than gum paste!
Cupcakes, cake truffles, marshmallows, blueberry frangipane tarts and lemon squares
Another crafty class (Clean and simple cake design). The chevrons and flowers are all modelling chocolate.
This is from the Craftsy class Fondant Frills. Maggie Austin says its a cabbage rose, but it doesn't seem similar to the photos of cabbage roses online (which seem to be much more similar to peony's). Regardless I think its a pretty flower! This was made with pink gum paste with pink blossom tint added to the centre for depth and a bit of sparkle.
From Nicolas Lodge's Craftsy class Ultimate Sugar Rose
Wedding cake for my friend's sister inspired by the bride's dress. The forget-me-nots are royal icing with a pearl dragee centre. The topper monogram was made by the bride and I made the fondant base. The ribbon roses and pearls are made from Jennifer Dontz's pearl clay. Considering this was my first fondant cake I'm thrilled with how it turned out. I do need to work on my fondant covering though - the forget me nots are covering quite a few folds and creases!
This is my first paid wedding cake and my first fondant cake, so I did a styrofoam test. The design is based on the brides wedding dress which has daisies almost dripping down the bodice, and ribbon roses on the waste. Also took inspiration from the Martha Stewart blossom cascade cake. The "S" is provided by the bride. For the final cake I'm thinking I'll build up the forget-me-nots around the bottom of the S to give a bit more depth (perhaps with a small fondant dome?). I'll also add a lot more drips in an assymetrical pattern. I'm thinking the top half of the top tier will be covered completely. Any feedback postive/negative on these ideas would be greatly appreciated! The wedding isn't until January.
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