Winter Greetings Cake

Decorating By springlakecake Updated 6 Dec 2006 , 6:39pm by CupCake13

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springlakecake Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 3:35pm
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Hello! I was just wanting to share my "winter greetings" cake. It was inspired by the Lenox "winter greetings" china. It just so happens that the artist, Catherine McClung, is my mom. She wanted a cake to match her china for a small luncheon that she is having tomorrow. I am very proud of my mother's accomplishments and I wanted to share her work as well as mine. I am doing a similar cake for one of my mother's friends at the end of the week. I am thinking I will do the top tier differently next time, but I was trying to follow the pattern. I welcome your critiques.

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BklynSuze Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 3:42pm
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I think your mom is going to be so touched by this..you did a greeat job! Better give her a box of kleenex when you present the cake

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springlakecake Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:21pm
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Thank you, she picked it up today and seemed pretty happy with it!

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sweetsbycheryl Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:28pm
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Wow, wow WOW icon_biggrin.gif
Stunning job!!!

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GenesisCakes Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:32pm
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It looks like talent runs in the family. Beautiful work on the cake...I'm sure your mom was very happy with it.

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jillchap Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:37pm
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your cake is absolutely gorgeous! i am stunned. i love the design that your mom did on the china, and i love how you translated it into a cake! this cake would be lovely for a christmas wedding... icon_biggrin.gif

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2sdae Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:44pm
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Very elegant and and an added compliment to you both! thumbs_up.gif

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PaulaT Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:51pm
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Your mother must be so proud of you. Very stunning.
Happy Holidays.

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tiggy2 Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 8:52pm
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Your cake is beautiful as well as the china. I received one of those plates as a gift and I simply love it. I use it every Christmas and always get compliments on it. You are both very talented!

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springlakecake Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 9:48pm
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Thanks everyone. I am excited that some of you have or have seen the china. My mother is very talented and I have always been very proud of her. She also has a few other china pattens from Lenox as well. She is always doing new and exciting things. She once got to design an ornament for the white house christmas tree (maybe 2 or 3 years ago) and got to meet Laura Bush. She was very excited. She was also featured on HGTV among a few others demonstrating how she made the ornament.

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Titansgold Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 9:54pm
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Not catoonish at all, it's absolutely beautiful. Your mom's going to love it!

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superstar Posted 5 Dec 2006 , 10:09pm
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It is gorgeous. You are both very talented.

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lauramw71 Posted 6 Dec 2006 , 2:59am
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WOW!!! All I can say.... absolutely beautiful!!!!!

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Zmama Posted 6 Dec 2006 , 12:18pm
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That is awesome! Great job!

Have you considered painting the fondant? Then it could wrap around the top tier. Ask mom to help, it would be fun to work together, right? Only suggesting because you mentioned doing it differently next time, not as criticism...

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springlakecake Posted 6 Dec 2006 , 12:20pm
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yeah, that would be a neat idea. She would have to do the painting though!

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CupCake13 Posted 6 Dec 2006 , 6:39pm
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Beautiful work, both of you!!

What did you make your cardinal out of? It looks like chocolate, is it?

(disregard that question. DUH, helps if I read the description on the photo in the gallery. been a llooonnng day here.)

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