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Gourmet Deviled Eggs

Cookies topped with fondant and BC. Fondant accents.

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Flippin' For Four!

Flip flops carved from 7" round. Main cake 8" round. BC covered with minor fondant accents. Fondant name & #. Interior cake is MacsMoms rainbow cake idea but done in pink, purple and teal. I love the colored cake! It looked so cool when I carved the flips! Grass skirt is Wilton-tip 21, Lei is Wilton-tip 2D.

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Ready To Hit The Beach!

I had so much fun with this one! Thanks to Grace for giving me a chance to do a cake I have been wanting to make for a long time!! BC covered carved cake. roughly 9X10 fondant top edge of bag, straps, bottom of bag, monogram, glasses, towel, and lei. Suntan lotion is cake ball covered in fondant. Modeled after my Land's End Boat and Tote that I LOVE!!

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Double Happiness

Bride sent me two pictures- unknown designer. Thanks to Alice for talking me into getting the plunger flower cutter! It worked great!! 10, 8, & 6. Bottom left at wedding to show topper. Fondant flowers and branches. Cake covered in homemade fondant in true white- came out perfectly white!! YEAH!!!

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Vanilla Cake Truffles

Vanilla Cake truffles topped with RI pansies and ladybugs. Others topped with more "chocolate", toasted coconut, and crushed peppermint (my favorite). They are in the candy foils (for size reference), next time I will make them a bit smaller so they will fit better! They were a very yummy way to use up my cake scraps and also a fancy treat for the potluck I went to. Everybody loved them!

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Rafting

Cake inspired a bit by angelcakes5's rafting cake. Thanks. Trees made using Aine2's tutorial! It was much HARDER than she made it look!! :lol: But still thanks! :lol: Buttercream and fondant accents. cake is 2 layer 10x9 with scraps to make mtn.

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Thank You Cookies

This basket of cookies went to my dd's school as a small thanks to the teacher's and staff. Sugar cookies with vanilla fondant and kopykake markers. What a fun way to decorate cookies!

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Making Music Cupcakes

This was a chance for me to try out my red velvet & cream cheese frosting recipes & my new stand. The cupcakes were delicious but the stand --well its wilton...... I did like how pretty the cupcakes looked on there because of the red. They would look really cool with blue stars on top for the 4th of July. I printed out musical notes and piped over them in chocolate.

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Love Around The World

This is my 2nd try at a cinched waist cake (8,7,8"). I am much happier with this one. I cut out the map out of paper and traced around it with a paring knife on marbled fondant. I would love to have suggestions for applying a bow to the side of a BC cake. I am so afraid that it may have fallen off-didn't feel real secure. Flags are paper on picks. Silver is that lovely silver glaze! Board is covered with maps I printed out.

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Gradutation Silver & Black

10" square, 8" round RV with decorator's cream cheese. TheCakeWizard's Chocolate and Toba's Vanilla Fondant. Paisley ideas came from several cakes but specifically from Yourstrulytx. Silver glaze used as paint. Thanks to Amy729 for her black stripes, although mine are random cause I couldn't get them perfect like hers! And sweetsbyl for her gorgeous mortar board and tassel. You guys did gorgeous cakes! Thanks for posting them!

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Oh Boy Laundry Cake

I have seen this cake several times on CC and spent about 2 hours(back in Feb.) looking through the baby shower gallery for one specific cake that had a a stand-up line on top. I never did find it but if it is you THANKS!! I also had posted a thread back in Feb. asking for help with fixing this cake. The thread is gone so I don't know who to thank! I am so sorry. I always try to keep track of that because I am so truly appreciative! I tried to make a bear like Aine2. This is a 10" and 8" dummy.

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Happy Birthday Bubbles

Client wanted my pink & brown cake but with pinks & lime green instead. I also switched the ABC style of the name & the design of the tiers. I really wanted to be able to show two different cakes in my portfolio. I think this was a 10 & a 6 (I think :lol: ). I was having trouble with the colors so I found a piece of scrapbook paper to match! I think I am going to put together a "color" book made up with pieces of scrapbook paper to have at consults.

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Dinosaur Cookies

Dinosaur Cookies on wands. Covered with marbled fondant and RI simple decor. These were also for the auction at DDs school. I started with the green fondant and then added purple color for the steg. Then balled it up and added some blue color and a sausage of white fondant for the bront. Then balled that up and added red color for the T-rex. I was very pleased with how they turned out and it was so easy to give them all a different look! Fondant is my new fav way to "flood" a cookie!

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Katy's Cake

I made this cake for a friend who just received the Tulare County (of California) Panhellenic Woman of the Year Award. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta so I incorporated their "logo pin" with the twin stars and Greek letters and their flower, the pansy. She was so pleased with it. This was my first time experimenting with drop strings and stuff for a real cake! I need to practice more but I was pleased with how easy it was to paint the RI! Fondant covered 7".

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School Carnival Donation

Sugar cookies with fondant and royal icing. For my DD's school carnival auction. I took a picture of the school mascot and blew it up to the size I wanted then hand cut it. Worked great! Thanks all my tutors in cookiedom!

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Blastoff

9x13 cut in thirds & stacked. I got home at 1:45 to pull a frozen stacked cake out of the freezer then carved it and lightly crumb coated. Then I spent some time trying to find inspiration on CC- Thanks Merissa (I couldn't put on all the windows though cause I had to leave a large chunk of cake with no artificial colors). The party was at 3:00 and we were only a little late. So basically I carved and frosted this guy in about an hour!! The idea of the candles from several pirate ship cakes on here!

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Sexy Stripes

I had so much fun working on this one! Dummy for a show. shoe sole is made from a cutter from global sugar art - thanks mom! Purple on base cake is dust with LD. So is the white one but you can't tell! LOL I have to say.... I love making shoes!!! oh the border is fondant too - I just made teardrop shaped pearls.

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Friendly Pumpkin Faces

White cupcakes with BC Dream frosting and wilton Halloween sprinkles. My 4 & 6 year old helped make the pumpkins and I drew the faces the next day. They were really cute at making the stems.

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Baby Jesus In A Manger

Cupcake cake. I just took the number of cupcakes needed for each group of kids and made it in a shape I liked. One has 20, the other about 5 more, I think. Chocolate and yellow cupcakes frosted with vanilla and chocolate BC Dream. Hay is piped with grass tip and wood done with serrated knife edge. with swirls to look like knots. ***Here's the Funny part***My DH said.... "It looks like a 28 year old baby!" LOL

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Post-It Present

A classic package cake with a twist, instead of a box it is a giant Post-It pad. 9" square cake covered in Vanilla BC Dream and topped with 50/50 sheets of paper and bow. Had a lot of fun with this one. It was for a friend who also is the church secretary. She loved it. Pressed in the sides with a bench scraper to get the paper pad look. I think this would be great for secretaries day too!

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Marthajo1's Birthday Cake!

This is what happens when you ask your DH to let you make your own cake! It took me soooo long to narrow down my "cakes I have been wanting to try making" list. Then I had it stacked and frozen, and went to a home show. We were gone about 3hours longer then I thought! Oops! Decorated a frozen block of cake in no more then and hour and a half! LOL Never Again! Chocolate clay & Toba's fondant in vanilla. Triple Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Dream Buttercream.

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Aero Dogs Birthday Cake For A Set Of Twins Turning 3

Very fun cake to make. 3 layers of Nilla~Fetti Cake with Chocolate Dream fill. Frosted with Vanilla Dream. Airbrush silver LD on bottom 2/3. Wings are cardboard. Image is on photo paper for lack of something else to use. Cake was made by slicing and stacking 1 and 1/2 9x13 cakes. This cake was made to look like a restaurant in Tulare, CA called Aero Dogs. It is made out of an old T-29 from the 50's. Very cool! They only make hot dogs-- that is why the small cakes look like dogs.

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Baby Ballet Dreams

Thanks so much to Ckkerber for a lot of the ideas I used on this cake....I was stumped. It is an 8" on top of a 7" 2 layer, twice torted triple Chocolate cake with my Chocolate version of BC Dream. The chocolate fondant is aprox. a 25/75 mix of fondant to chocolate clay. The pink is Toba's fondant with extra vanilla and extra glycerin. The shoes and their ribbons and the sign are made with a 50/50 blend of Wilton fondant and Wilton pre-made gumpaste.

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Pirate Treasure

Pirate treasure chest. I looked at many pirate treasure chests before making mine, specifically thanks to Adven68, luvbakin, and samymccray. also Earlenes directions for pearls. 9x13 halved & stacked. Doweled to support the lid (which is a 9x13 halved & stacked, carved.) Chocolate modeling clay-- (so yummy!! Thanks admin) marbeled with tobas fondant in vanilla. Made a great tasting chocolate fondant that was easy to work with. Treasure is fondant or gumpaste molded and hand carved and dusted.

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It's Laundry Day

This cake was inspired by many adorable laundry cakes! The sandals are made using CakeDesign's pattern (available in Spanish Language Forum). All the accent pieces are made with Toba's fondant or fondant/gumpaste mix. The blanket is impressed with tiny heart stamps and dusted on the edges to look like satin binding (yeah came out just like I wanted! ) BC Dream (for color-ability) over Triple Chocolate BC. 10" Triple Chocolate Cake. I circled my favorite outfit!

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John Deere Groom's Cake

Thanks to Amy729 for your fabulous example of a tractor cake! I had a lot of fun on this one and was so sad when I realized that I had forgotton to put on my RI steering wheel (I had made it in a lily nail so it was really cool! :( !! ) It is a 2-layer 9x13 chocolate with chocolate BC and a carved tractor out of white cake. Toba's fondant and BC Dream.

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