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This template is required to make the gumpaste shoe i submitted earlier today. You can find the instructions that go with this on my website, Enjoy!!!
I just made this shoe to put together a step by step tute. I will submit it to this site late on today if anyone hasnt done it already ;) I've put it away in a box in the dark, and will be using it for my sister's birthday cake in December.
This cake was a bit of a disaster that sort of turned out in the end. Top is a 4 inch dark choc mudcake, base is a pineapple coconut cake filled with Sylvia Weinstock's buttercream filling flavoured with lemon juice. Covered in fondx, with gumpaste accents. This was meant to be a 3 tier but the base collapsed, and had to turn it into a 2 tier.
Vanilla, strawberry and lemon cupcakes. Covered in IMBC. Top cake is a choc mud covered in fondx. Each cupcake has matching colored cachous (dragees) and one royal icing flower. The cake stand is glass. I ordered the glass circles from my (ex) brother in law and the separators are candle holders from Ikea. The base is a floating candle bowl. I stuck the candle holders to each glass piece with silicone. Each glass circle can be used on it's own as a cake stand. I will try it when i get it back from the cust.
I did this yesterday as I was teaching my nephew how to make a gumpaste figure. She has a rather large head as hubby pointed out, but she's meant to be a chubby little girl!!
Just finished this one. It's a vanilla buttercake, filled with caramel and cream. Board covered in fondant, bubbles in buttercream, and everything else is gumpaste. Design is from this website, lots of these cakes around. The bubbles were piped with tip 3 in buttercream, and then flattened with a cornflour covered finger ; )
Ok, here it is. Base cake is a dark chocolate hazelnut mud, with Frangelico ganache. The two top tiers are three layers of white chocolate coconut mud, 2 layers of caramel mud, all joined together with a caramel ganache. All cakes covered with a buttercream crumb coat, and then a mix of Orchard and FondX fondant colored with Americolors Ivory. I mixed the fondant cause i thought i was going to run out. The orchids are gumpaste. I went to the Wedding today & im very happy to say, the couple loved their cake
8" vanilla buttercake, filled with caramel, cream & peaches. Buttercream crubmcoat, covered in fondX. All edible, except for the lipstic and nailpolish which are candles. Made this cake for the niece of the bride, who's wedding im attending today. Needed something simple, as i was also making the wedding cake.The bristles on the brush are made with the sugarcraft gun and soft licorice.This is by no means an original design. scores of these in diff colours in the WWW.
Dark chocolate mudcake filled with dark choc ganache. Covered in Fondx with handmade gumpaste tulips. The bride chose a cake i made for a bridal expo that had orchids on it, and changed it to tulips which was what she had on her wedding invitations. The tulips were colored with purple chalk and steamed.
Thanks to cfj(Carol) for allowing me to borrow her beautiful design. Unfortunately, i didnt do it justice. This is a white chocolate coconut mudcake, filled with white chocolate ganache. Covered in fondx. Leadlight cross done in piping jelly, and dove handmouded in gumpaste. Thanks Carol The lettering was done with FMM cutters. I do MOST of my lettering with those
I just finished this cake, it's for a friend at work. She wants to give it as a gift to her god-daughter for her birthday. Larry is a dark choc mudcake, filled with dark choc ganache. Bob is a white choc coconut mudcake. Both covered in fondant. I had never watched Veggie Tales until my friend asked for this cake. She lent me the DVDs and i loved them : )
Before finishing the cake I did for today, i decided to take some pictures with other decorations. I like the plain one on the left, maybe it would suit some sugared fruits on top, the one on the right has chocolate butterflies that i did on a course a few months back and i was looking for the perfect opportunity to use them. The cake was a double decker mudcake. Basically each cake has 5 layers (1/2 an inch thick each) of mudcake, starting with dark, then white, and so on, all joined with white ganache hmm
The final wedding cake is the one on the right. The one on the left is the one I liked, but the right is the bride's choice. It has chocolate cilinders and gumpaste roses and butterflies. The original design came from a cake I did last year, for an engagement, the original had gerberas and was only one tier. There is a banner on top of the cake saying "Congratulations on your wedding day, Vanessa & Kai, 19th August 2006". It took me a LOT longer than i had expected. The bride hugged me when she saw it.
This is the third of these i've done this month. Three layers of yellow cake, filled with caramel and whipped cream with chopped peaches. Fully decorated in buttercream flavoured with butterscotch schnaps
Baked in an 11x14 inch oval tin and cut to shape. Dark choc mud. Covered in a layer of dark choc ganache and red fondant. All decorations made with gumpaste. Thanks to Connie (boween) for sending me the logos : )
I made this cake for a friend at work, it's her birthday tomorrow and this is for our morning tea. It's a buttercake, with caramel, cream and peaches. Covered in fondant and buttercream roses and swirls. Inspired by the beautiful cakes made at New York's Cupcake Cafe.
This is a cake dummy decorated for a Bridal Expo that i attended today with franjmc and koko4min. Covered in fondant with satin ribbons and hand made orchids. This was my first time making orchids, i actually made these for a wedding cake where the bride changed her mind and then had cherry blossoms so I had these in a box and decided to use them for the expo.
This is a cake dummy decorated for a Bridal Expo that i attended today with franjmc and koko4min. Covered in fondant, with gumpaste circles. This cake was based on the background of my website, i intended to put a monogram but it broke before i even worked out how to attach it ; )
This is a cake dummy decorated for a Bridal Expo that i attended today with franjmc and koko4min. Small cake, 6 5 and 4 inch dummies, covered in fondant, with gumpaste blossoms. This was very time consuming for such a small cake.
This is a cake dummy decorated for a Bridal Expo that i attended today with franjmc and koko4min. Covered in fondant with hand molded fondant pearls coloured in gold dust.
This was a massive cake. The base is 2 x 11 inch cakes. Each 11 inch cake was a vanilla buttercake, filled with whipped cream, caramel and peaches and pineapple. All up the box stood 7 inches tall. Clown made with 3d bear pan, in vanilla buttecake with Callebaut choc chips in it. Base covered in buttercream, with fondant accents, clown covered in fondant with buttercream hear. Balloons and hat made out of gumpaste. Fondant ball border.
This is the second one of these that i made. Made some little changes to this one. The first one was an 8 inch, this is a 10 inch, which meant that kitty had to be a LOT bigger. It was hard to keep her head from falling over. I think she weighs about a pound. She is made in gumpaste. The gift box, rope border and ribbon bows on the board are extras not included in the first one. Cake is four layers of dark choc mudcake filled with whipped dark chocolate ganache, covered in whipped ganache and fondX.
I don't like this style of cake AT ALL. Rough icing is not for me. But it's what the bride wanted. I like froggy, and the bride and the flowers but the whole thing put together, my goodness!! I agreed to do this cake because i liked the concept of the Princess and the Frog. This cake would look so much nicer if the icing was smooth!! I've been told that I have to be tougher and learn to say NO! next time, i promise!!! Gumpaste flowers and figures. Bride matches bride's dress and frog matches groom's.
Detail of main Cake, covered in fondant, gumpaste figures. The figures are the baby's 9 yeah old brother Paul and 3 year old sister Mya. The cake is 3 layers of white chocolate coconut mudcake, and 2 layers of dark chocolate mudcake joined with white chocolate ganache. Thanks for the lovely boards Fran : )
This was my nephew's baptism cake. All gumpaste figures. Thanks to franjmc who was kind enough to cover my boards and kept me fed during those long hours of cake decorating. Middle cake is 3 layers of coconut white chocolate mudcake and 2 layers of dark chocolate mudcake, joined with white chocolate ganache. The cake on the left is a jaffa mudcake filled with white chocolate ganache, the smaller on the right is a hazelnut white chocolate cake, filled with white hazelnut ganache. YUM!! Thanks Franny : )
Just completed a two day course at Savour Chocolate and Patisserie School. All chocolate decorations, using Callebaut chocolate.
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