Friday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17

Decorating By catlharper Updated 1 Sep 2017 , 1:07pm by Marian64

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catlharper Posted 26 Aug 2017 , 3:05am
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Opening up another session of the FNCC! ALL levels of cakers are welcome to share their week, photos of their work, ask for help or provide help if they can!


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catlharper Posted 26 Aug 2017 , 3:08am
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Just one cake this week but I made it twice! I call it a Rocky Road cake. Chocolate cake with vanilla bean buttercream, marshmallows, slivered almonds and chocolate ganache filling covered with vanilla bean buttercream and then topped with marshmallows, slivered almonds and chocolate ganache and garnished with pirouette cookies. It was SOOOO good! (Warning, the cookies are for looks only, they get soggy pretty much right away.


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sweettherapy Posted 26 Aug 2017 , 7:51pm
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I hate rocky road but that looks delicious!!!!!!!

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sweettherapy Posted 26 Aug 2017 , 7:53pm
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I also had one project this weekend :) Friday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17Friday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17

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Marian64 Posted 27 Aug 2017 , 2:37am
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@catlharper ‍ your cake looks delicious!

@sweettherapy ‍ I love your construction cake and matching cupcakes. I am filling the idea away for future ideas. 

Thankfully no cakes for me this week. 

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sweettherapy Posted 27 Aug 2017 , 2:39am
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@Marian64 thank you! This was such a cute and fun theme 

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catlharper Posted 27 Aug 2017 , 3:52am
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sweettherapy That is just wonderful! I adore how you did the "tire" detail! Wonderful!

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sweettherapy Posted 27 Aug 2017 , 4:56pm
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@catlharper ‍ Thank you so much.....it was on of the easiest tiers I've done after I figured out how to get that shape, I'm awful and geometry;)

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hep275 Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 9:29am
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Right, let's try again.  Hopefully this will work!  Made a chocolate cake with milk choc ganache and 90 cupcakes for the 60th birthday of a gardener.  Friday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17Friday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17

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kstevens Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 2:47pm
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Happy to be able to once again sign in and take part in FNCC!  

@catlharper ‍ your cake looks delicious!

@sweettherapy ‍ your cake and cupcakes are adorable!

@hep275 ‍ your cake and cupcakes look great!  Such perfect edges on that cake, so jealous! 

With being unable to sign in for a bit and then being away on vacation I missed posting a few of my creations so I'll share everything now.  The week before vacation I made a simple beach themed cake and beer batter maple bacon cupcakes for a lady down the road.  The cake was for a dinner party she was attending & the cupcakes were for her husband's birthday.  Both went over very well.    

Back before cakes took over my life I used to make a lot of preserves and had been entering them in the Valley Gardener's Club Horticultural Show.  I decided this year that I was going to get back in to making preserves but I ended up only having 4 things made to enter.  In addition to the preserves they always have some sort of baked goods category.  This year was scones (that I did not enter) and cupcakes decorated in red and white to celebrate Canada's 150 (right up my alley).  My cupcakes won first and I also won first & third in the fruit jam other than strawberry category and first and third for the savory jelly category.  Not too shabby! lol

This weekend I made another beach themed cake but this time I did a pail of sand.  The shovel is made from gumpaste and the shells are all fondant.  I had baked 5 layers of cake but the 5th one made it too tall so I cut the extra layer in half, iced it and added some fondant shells to give them as a "bonus" cake.

Pictures to follow :-)

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kstevens Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 2:48pm
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kstevens Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 2:49pm
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Beer batter maple bacon cupcakesFriday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17

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kstevens Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 2:49pm
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kstevens Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 2:50pm
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Little "bonus" cakeFriday Night Cake Club For 8/25/17

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Marian64 Posted 28 Aug 2017 , 4:12pm
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@hep275 ‍ just love your garden cake and the cupcakes they are to cute. And Kelly is right the edges are perfect.

@kstevens ‍I always love your cakes and I know a few people who would love your beer batter maple cupcakes. I don't doubt your cupcakes won first prize and congratulations on the jam. I guess you can do it all. 

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sweettherapy Posted 29 Aug 2017 , 1:25am
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@kstevens ‍ thank you and your cakes/cupcakes are gorgeous!

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catlharper Posted 29 Aug 2017 , 3:37am
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hep275  That cake is just killin me! LOL! So funny!


kstevens Congrats on your wins! Love all the creations! I know what you mean about signing in...it just totally refused for several days. It seems to be working again now!


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kstevens Posted 29 Aug 2017 , 1:36pm
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@Marian64 ‍ not sure I can do it all but I do like to stay busy.  I get bored easily so if I have too much idle time on my hands I start to lose what bit of a mind I have left! lol

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remnant3333 Posted 29 Aug 2017 , 7:05pm
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Great job everyone!!!

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shellybbear Posted 30 Aug 2017 , 1:23am
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First off, I must state that this cake is definitely a copy of a lovely cake done by Lenka Sweet Dreams.

This cake was quite a few firsts for me.

First time doing an actual 3 tier cake.

First time working with modeling chocolate.

And, probably the most frightening for me, the first time one of my cakes has ever left my home to be seen and eaten by the outside world.

I lack confidence in my skills, so I only makes cakes for my household.  When my soon to be 6 year old great niece Savannah saw a picture of Lenka's mermaid cake, she decided that it was the only cake she wanted for her birthday.  Her parents don't really have the money for that type of cake and suggested that I do it since it was for a small party of family and close friends.  Of course, I declined.  But, that adorable little face won me over (as always) and I said I would give it my best shot.  Savannah even helped with decorating some cupcakes and making some of the modeling chocolate decorations.  We made some great memories and she seemed very happy with her "really tall" cake, and I guess that is what really matters in the end.  

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catlharper Posted 30 Aug 2017 , 1:31am
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shellybbear I think you are too hard on your "abilities"! This is an amazing cake and I just can't imagine anyone not loving it!

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remnant3333 Posted 30 Aug 2017 , 1:44am
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Wow you did a terrific job shellybbear!!! Love it!!!

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kstevens Posted 30 Aug 2017 , 1:54am
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@shellybbear ‍ your cake turned out great!  

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LelekBolek Posted 31 Aug 2017 , 10:45am
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Hi everyone. I have not been on here for some time. Life stuff and such got us messed up in a whirlwind of things, some good, some bad, whatever.

All of your cakes are so impressive!

Came here to ask for inspiration. My husband's b-day is coming up in just a little over a week, and kids want a cake. He couldn't care less for what flavor, or even a fact of a cake, since his cancer treatments have depleted his taste for anything sweet and sugary, and all that. So it will have to be a very small cake. For a man. who does not eat cake really, but his kids want to celebrate.  Last year I did a "ski trails cake" - a fairly simple thing, which he does not remember it, since his short-term memory is very affected by radiation. I've considered making a "sandwich cake" - you know, not really a cake, but a stacked-up sandwich, with plain cream-cheese used for "frosting", but those are hard to decorate, and our kids want some flair. 

Any ideas for a small cake for a man? Not overly complicated, as we are only a few days away, and in terms of schedule this and next week - I have even less time than maybe 1.5 days of being able to work on it on and off, between other things. I have thought of perhaps a tiki cake, those are bright and cheerful, but I am not sure how I feel about it, hawaiian theme is really not anyhow connected to us. Would a pair of running shoes be a good and easy cake? He loves running, and even jogged through his treatments. I've never done a shoe cake though. Not sure if kids will like the design either. 

 Any thoughts will be appreciated. 

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shellybbear Posted 31 Aug 2017 , 11:01am
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catlharper, remnant3333, and kstevens thanks for the kind comments.   Love coming to Cake Central and seeing everyone's amazing work

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kstevens Posted 31 Aug 2017 , 9:39pm
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@LelekBolek ‍ sorry to hear that your husband has cancer.  I did a really rather simple cake for my brother back in June that might work for you?  You can customize it a bit with the sprinkles you use, maybe use brighter colors to make it cheery?

It's in my gallery:

https://www.cakecentral.com/gallery/i/3397922/birthday-cake


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catlharper Posted 1 Sep 2017 , 3:59am
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Awwww @LelekBolek ‍ I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. I do hope that the treatments are helping! As for the cake, one that looks like a TV is really easy. Just a square cake with "rabbit ears" on top and a plug out of the back. The screen can be a transfer.  Here is the one I did for my son: 

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LelekBolek Posted 1 Sep 2017 , 9:52am
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Thank you for the suggestions. I love both options. Gives me another idea, too. I will have to see if I have any time for it! Maybe an Atari cake - that should's be too hard, with a fairly flat cake and a couple of "joysticks".

As for cancer, thank you for your good thoughts. We have been dealing with this since 2008, so a good time, and - as cancer affected families start thinking - hopefully will be dealing for a long time more.  Never know. So we celebrate what we have. 

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Marian64 Posted 1 Sep 2017 , 1:07pm
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@LelekBolek ‍I like the Atari cake idea. Praying the treatment puts into remission and that y'all have along time to deal with and celebrate many more birthdays. 

@shellybbear ‍ I absolutely love your cake.

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