Birthday Roses

12x18" chocolate fudge cake with buttercream icing. Used 3 shades of dusty pink in the roses. First time using the rose cutter that you fold in half lengthwise and "roll" up. Brushed with shimmer dust.

Blue-Jays Birthday

Buttercream frosting with accents done in fondant for a Blue-Jays fan.

Cribbage Board

Chocolate fudge cake with a chocolate fudge filling, made for a man who loves to play crib. Red and blue details are fondant. Cards are made from gumpaste. Everything else is buttercream.

Basketball Cookies

Soft gingerbread cookies textured with very thin layer of fondant which was colored with red, yellow and brown.Textured by using a rolling pin over rubberized shelf liner. Lines scored with a cake tester, and then with a circle cutter. (I was tired of decorating gingerbread men, so used some of the dough for these instead!!)

Go Team To!

This cake is for a hockey team on which my 8-yr-old Grandson plays. They are at a tournament this weekend and are having a Friday night team & family party. The main body of the jersey is 12x18" vanilla cake and the sleeves are cut from a 9x13" chocolate fudge cake. The whole thing is frosted in buttercream, with the black and gold accents being fondant. I had someone print the edible image of the team logo.

Summer Pansies

This is a carrot and pineapple cake with cream cheese frosting. The pansies were to match the ones grown by the birthday couple. I hadn't done pansies before and didn't have the proper cutters, so just googled and found a tutorial. The "banner" is fondant, and the pansies were made from fondant with a little gum tragacanth added. This was a fun project to do!

Summertime

Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I wanted something bright and summery for my Dad's 91st birthday picnic. Top decorations are made of fondant.

Minecraft

Double chocolate fudge cake with chocolate fudge icing and tiles made of fondant. For a little girl's birthday who loves to play Minecraft. Matching cookies also done for the party theme.

Minecraft Cookies

I changed up my Christmas checkerboard cookie recipe to make these Minecraft cookies to accompany a birthday cake for a little girl who loves playing Minecraft.

Breakfast Anyone?

These are sugar cookies decorated for my 2 grandsons. They love to take "fun" cookies in their lunches--and it seems their classmates even look forward to seeing what's for lunch!

Munchstaches

Movember is coming, and I wanted to try out this set of cutters by Fred. It's a combination stamper & cutter and names the 5 different styles. These are a chocolate sugar cookie and I tinted various shades of fondant and applied to the back of the stamped baked cookies (making them reversible).

Birthday Cake For A 3 Year Old Boy Chocolate Cake With White Buttercream Lego Man And Blocks Are Made From Fondant His Name Was Done T

Birthday cake for a 3-year old boy. Chocolate cake with white buttercream. Lego man and blocks are made from fondant. His name was done to look like the LEGO logo. The dots were probably the most time consuming.

Touque

This Couple Wanted A Winter Wedding And Chose Penguins As The Cake Topper Because They Said Penguins Mate For Life Bride And Groom Penguin

This couple wanted a winter wedding and chose penguins as the cake topper because they said penguins mate for life. Bride and Groom penguins were molded from gumpaste and fondant. The groom designed and sketched the cake for me. 6" white, 10" marble, & 14" chocolate fudge, all iced in buttercream. Fondant blue ribbon, and various shades of snowflakes. After travelling several hundred miles, I had some trouble with assembly, so added the sprinkling of coarse sugar to cover and flaws.

Retirement Wine

Retirement party for a high school principal who collects wine. The label on the bottle was designed using the school mascot. First time trying to make a wine bottle, following an on-line tutorial, They needed a large cake, so it was a 12x18" cut lengthwise and stacked. It was probably too large for the size of the bottle. Covered in buttercream, then fondant for the crate, gumpaste leaves, and chocolate shavings. Fun to try, and would like to try again sometime.

Chocolate Fudge Cake Covered In Fondant With Gumpaste Makeup Pieces Made For The Birthday Of Someone Who Sells Makeup Through Home Parties

Chocolate fudge cake covered in fondant with gumpaste makeup pieces. Made for the birthday of someone who sells makeup through home parties and loves all things "girlie"

65Th Wedding Anniversary

Chocolate cake for the groom, and white cake for the bride. Icing in buttercream and then covered with fondant. The photo with no flash is more accurate colour of the shimmery fabric.

Nancy's Dream Cake

With thanks to misterc for the design. 14" chocolate cake with fudge filling. 10" and 6" white cake with cream cheese and fresh strawberries filling. Iced in white butter cream with fondant dots and fondant black ribbon trim. Initial taken from a font I printed out and cut from combination of fondant and gum paste.

It's A Jungle Out There!

2-layer chocolate fudge cake iced in butter cream icing. Bottom layer was sprayed with a base coat using my airbrush. All the animals hand-cut with an exacto knife from fondant. Some leaves hand cut, and others I used a cutter. Wasn't sure when I started what I was going to do with the top layer, but then hit upon the sonshine .... after all it was their first son that was born! The sun was made from gumpaste.

Eleanor's Balloons

Chocolate fudge cake, iced in buttercream with fondant balloons and border. Done to match the invitations.

Skater's Delight ...

A Dad phoned me to order a birthday cake for his "little girl", whose favourite colour is mauve, and he wanted something with a skate on it. She was turning 9 and had just won her first gold medal in competition skating. The skate is made from gumpaste with silver details, The chocolate fudge cake is iced in buttercream with mauve and purple fondant. They were thrilled with the results!

Birthday Presents

Bottom layer is chocolate fudge, top layer is French vanilla. Iced in butter cream, with fondant border, flowers, and embossed ribbon. The bow and gift tag are made of gumpaste.

Dots And Swirls

Two-layer cake for a small wedding. Dots and swirls piped freehand. Entirely buttercream, with real ribbon to match her colours.

Hanah

Chocolate fudge cake with butter cream frosting and fondant details. The shoes were made from gumpaste. I loved using Wilton's Buttons and Bows mold!

Hanah

Chocolate fudge cake with butter cream frosting and fondant details. The shoes were made from gumpaste. I loved using Wilton's Buttons and Bows mold!

Beach Holiday

Chocolate fudge cake for a woman who loves to stay at fancy resorts, but whose children love the beach. The chair is made of gumpaste, as are the palm branches. The branches have a wire in them, the tree trunks have a hollow pastic tube down the center, and the little drink on the chair has a piece of toothpick in the stem. Otherwise everything is edible made from fondant. The blue water area is buttercream. The "sand" is graham crackers mixed with butter and sugar, spread over buttercream icing, and sprinkled with cinnamon. The rock wall in the resort area are candy coated chocolate (purchased). The "dirt" is oreo cookie crumbs. Rolled up towels and an iphone in the beach bag. The recipient was thrilled with it! I didn't realize that she has a pink iphone.