This first one is was a combo birthday party that two of my friend's threw for both of their hubbys' 40th birthdays. Unfortunately the party was delayed for two days because of the weather. I posted about this a while ago... I was worried that the cake wouldn't taste fresh after four days but there was no way I had time to start over and it was way too big to refrigerate. I tasted the cake at the party and I thought it tasted fine, just not quite as flavorful as usual. Nobody else noticed this except me
Anyway, I was trying to make this cake look like a volvo turned into a star wars type spaceship. One of the guy's loves his old volvo and the other is a star wars fan. I had a heck of a time trying to come up with an idea for this!!! I had a lot of problems with this cake and wasn't thrilled with how it turned out.
The second cake was for a surprise baby shower at my son's preschool. I had a lot of fun with this one! After my pathetic attempts at modelling luke skywalker and yoda I had to revert back to a teddy bear, LOL!
Courtney
You made the teddy bear?? It is so cute!! How did you do the sides on the baby shower cake? They are both awesome....you should be really proud of yourself, IMHO, of course.
Both look great. Are the sides of the baby cake done with patchwork cutters by any chance? I've just bought a set but haven't had a chance to use them yet but they look very similar to what you have here.
aww the baby shower cake is so sweet-nice color combos
Thanks for all the nice comments everyone! The quilt cake was actually pretty easy to do. I adapted it from Lindy Smith's cake in her book Celebrate with a Cake.
I was at Jo ann's and happened to stumble across these plastic impression plates, made by Fiskars. There was six different plates with a pattern on each side. I think they had another whole set of different patterns too. So I rolled out my fondant a little bit first, then place it on top of the plate and rolled it out a little more onto the plate to really transfer the pattern. Then I cut out the squares. This took a while because I had six different shades and six patterns. I cut most of them out ahead of time and covered them with plastic wrap so they didn't dry out much. It was actually helpful to have them a tiny bit dried out b/c they were easier to handle. Then I place them onto the cake in a somewhat random pattern. Then I made all the little bows to make it look more "finished". The bear was modelled out of fondant. I made a mini quilt for the bear by cutting out small squares and a trim and then rolling it out a little to seal edges. That's about it.
Courtney
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