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This was a quick cake for Mother's Day dessert with friends. Yellow cake, lemon curd filling, and buttercream. Although I was skeptical about learning royal icing, I've really enjoyed the detailed flowers I've been able to make and that the leftovers keep indefinitely. These were left from previous cakes and all I had to do was pop them on and add leaves. :)
Bronze award is copper-colored fondant painted with bronze pearl dust/vanilla mixture. Royal icing daisies in honor of Girl Scouting founder Juliette "Daisy" Low. I had a more formal design in mind, but the leader asked if I could incorporate a rainbow. I think the end result is more suited to young girls' taste and they loved it.
Here is Snoopy as the WWI Flying Ace! I baked the cake in loaf pans to get the right shape, then added cupcake "clouds." The roof is cereal treats. Snoopy and the banner are fondant. I also used one of my new favorite items, a food coloring felt tip pen. Perfect for the "Snoopy" sign, banner, and bullet holes. : )
Dark chocolate cake with gold BC. Every slice will be black-n-gold! Seal is fondant with shimmer dust and (poor) BC lettering.
My daughter wanted a "castle cake," and this is what I came up with. The concept/colors coordinate with the Disney princess party ware. I used wrapping paper rolls and ice cream cones covered in fondant for the towers, rice treats for the stairs, and royal icing flowers. The figures are a play set that the birthday girl got to keep.
This was for my husband's retirement from the Air Force. The seal is color flow. It took a long time, but I was really pleased with the result.
Quick and easy cake for my son's 7th birthday. Grass, some strawberry plants, and a John Deere topper set.
First Communion cake for my son. This was my first attempt at cornelli lace.
Buttercream with royal flowers and candy bunnies and eggs.
First time trying the ruffle border. Not my best handwriting, but still tasty!
This is a carrot cake with crusting cream cheese icing. I got the helmet designs from the internet and used the gel transfer method, filling in with BC.
This was for a Christening reception at church. It was really big, and I didn't know how to make anything but drop flowers, so it's a little empty.
This was for the choir retirement of a church friend. She sang with the Trinity Choir for 52 years!! The music is from her favorite hymn.
I made these with the royal icing violets from my Wilton Course II classes.
This was for Wilton Course 1, Lesson 2. It was my first time using the gel transfer method. I was thrilled at how quickly I could make this and have it in perfect proportion! I kept thinking of all of the earlier cakes I could have used this method on!
This was a combination of ideas from other CC cakes - Thanks! I layered black and blue color spray to mimic an airbrushed look. It was my son's 6th birthday, so I made a Roman Numeral 6 behind the fondant cut-out logo, as it looks on the DVD case. I ordered the topper and the rings on the cupcakes online. Very simple techniques. The only difficult part was cutting out the logo.
This was for a Confirmation reception at church. I was really happy with how the dove turned out. I drew it freehand, then filled it in with stars and shells. I was going for a look of different fonts, but, in hindsight, would have preferred to just use cursive.
This was a compilation of other CC ideas - Thanks! I used blue color spray to get a sky look, fondant butterflies, and drop flowers. All really simple techniques, but it turned out nicely.
This was the first time using a crusting cream cheese frosting. Previous recipes were too soft to pipe.
This was for a church reception. I wasn't thrilled with this one. It was too empty, but I was short on frosting. It would be better with whole trees and bigger writing, or a longer verse.
This is from another CC design. It was actually really simple and turned out very well. I filled in the eyes with BC, but you could use fondant instead. Attached is a picture of the matching cupcakes with a spider ring on each.
This was for confirmation. My daughter was 2 months old and my husband was deployed, so I needed an easy design. It was simple, but still nice.
This was for a church reception on Trinity Sunday. I based it on a window at our church.
The volcano is a waffle cone, end broken off, and covered in peanut butter candy melts. In hindsight, it looked better without the BC lava - I just couldn't get it to flow right. The trees are pretzels and I also used chocolate rock candies for accents. The figurines on both the cake and cupcakes were ordered very inexpensively from Oriental Trading.
This was my first sheet cake for a church reception. It's 2 9x13's iced side by side. I've since learned to level them better. : ) The design is an approximation of another CC cake -Thanks! I've since learned the gel transfer method, which would have made this a lot easier and neater.
This was for a "Cars" themed party. It's an approximation of another cake I saw on CC. Thanks for the idea!
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