Golf Birthday

Thanks to Kiwi777 for inspiration and instruction

Elmo

Chocolate Cake with chocolate filling. Fur done with fondant and a clay gun, which has got to be the hard way....

40Th Anniversary

Fourth Of July Birthday

With thanks to Jeanne Kalman

Carrie's Graduation

Cake for college graduate moving to New York which incorporated all her awards and some of the New York skyline. Lemon cake torted with raspberry SMBC.

Gift Box

Banana cake with brown sugar SMBC covered in vanilla fondant with gumpaste bow. For a bridal shower where the theme colors were orange, green, and yellow.

Pine Cones And Cala Lillies

This cake was inspired by Colette Peter's "Chocolate Fantasia" The central bottom tier (14 inches) and smallest tier (4 inches) were carrot cake with brown sugar SMBC. The other tiers (10, 6, cut-out 10 and cut-out 8) were chocolate cake with chocolate SMBC. Everything was covered in light blue vanilla fondant with chocolate fondant and gumpaste decorations. Bride and Groom are both park rangers with pine cones being a central part of the decor and the Bride and attendants carried cala lillies so chocolate fondant pine cones and gumpaste cala lillies were the finishing accents along with a big dress bow in the back.

Stars And Dots

Wedding cake for 350. Chocolate cake with chocolate meringue buttercream covered in chocolate fondant. Funfetti cake (from scratch) with raspberry meringue buttercream covered in vanilla fondant. Fondant and Gumpaste decorations.

Teresa's Birthday Present

6 inch square "present" Gumpaste flowers and bow

Teapot

Centerpiece for a tea party. Lemon cake with Raspberry SMBC filling. Handle and spout are gumpaste and all is covered in vanilla fondant.

Nursing Graduation

For a nursing grad. Three layers of chocolate cake filled with chocolate/Grand Marnier mousseline filling and covered in vanilla fondant. Carved from a half sheet. With many thanks to bonniedime whose cake inspired this one, and who gave me hints on how to do it. Diploma is rice paper. Glove is fondant. Nurse's cap, stethoscope, pen, sicissors, and bobby pins are gumpaste.

Birdhouse

This was made for a birdhouse auction benefit. It was auctioned along with 120 or so real birdhouses. Grand Marnier cake filled and iced with chocolate mousseline buttercream covered in fondant with fondant and gumpaste accents.

Jewelry Box

Chocolate cake with Italian meringue butercream. Covered in fondant with gumpaste jewelry. Made for jewelry store owners whose store I like to vist even though I never buy anything....

Flower Pots

Chcolate cakes with cookie crumb soil and gumpaste flowers. The sign is rice paper and edible ink.

Hearts And Flowers

This was the wedding cake I did for pastry school. Cornelli lace, embossed painted heats, gumpaste topper and middle arrangement.

Aliza's Cake

This was a lemon poppyseed cake filled with lemon curd and covered in lemon curd flavored buttercream. Decorated with white chocolate curls, marzipan hearts, cornelli lace, and gumpaste flowers and hearts.

Kehillah Jewish High School Graduation

Anniversary With The Stars

This was for a 35th anniversary party celebrated in a planetarium

Gingerbread Bakery

Everyone in my pastry school class did a gingerbread house for display in the lobby. This was my version.

Truffles Plus

"Truffles" were chocolate ganache in chocolate shells with gumpaste decorations-- Cake was Grand Marnier chocolate chip cake with chocolate meringue buttercream, chocolate fondant, and poured ganache top decorated to match the "truffles."

Dr. Seuss Brithday

The Cat in the Hat celebrated his 50th birthday at the same time as a friend who is a Dr. Seuss fan. This cake celebrated both birthdays. Thanks to ShirleyW for inspiration and instruction. The cake was chocolate with chocolate meringue buttercream. Decorations (except the "50' candles) are all gumpaste and fondant.

Allan's Garden

Birthday cake for an avid gardener. Went to his house and took pictures and reproduced his backyard garden. It was spring so needed a little imagination to see his prize gourds growing. Path is crushed meringues, planter dirt is crushed chocolate cookies, garden is chocolate dirt. Everthing else is fondant and gumpaste.

Princess Stephanie

Sweet 16 cake fit for a princess. Gumpaste crown.

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75th birthday cake for a friend from Liverpool having an English themed party. Grand Marnier Cake with Chocolate IMBC and fondant decorations. The knight was created with instructions in Debbie Brown's Enchanted Cakes for Children.

(Not Over The Hill) But On Top Of The World!

This was done for the 60th birthday of a world traveler who is an avid bicyclist with signposts for many of the destinations he has visited including penguins and a glacier for Antarctica. All fondant and gumpaste decorations except the bicycle, which was a purchased scrapbook die-cut. Thanks to rstml and msauer for tips on how to do this cake and to yyconfections for inspiration for the man leaning against the rock . Orange Grand Marnier cake with chocolate meringue icing.

Bar Mitzvah

12" Chocolate square torted and 9" lemon sqyare cake torted and carved to resemble a reader's stand in the synagogue with the Torah and pointer ready for the Bar Mitzvah to begin reading. All decorations are fondnat, gumpaste and rice paper.