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Square tiered wedding cake iced in white buttercream, with winding pink azalea branches and a flowering tree on top! Figurines of the bride, groom, and the groom's little girl completed the detail.
A cake for the ULTIMATE metrosexual male!! The birthday boy is a big fan of Bond no.9 New Haarlem cologne, and also the band U2. So we combined the two, coming up with a bottle of BONO no.9 ANGELS OF NEW HAARLEM... (get it?) Cake was stacked and carved yellow cake with chocolate ganache, caramel, and candided pecan filling.
This was a gift for a single-daddy friend of mine who is a hip-hop artist. His mic is his instrument. :) We had a shower for him to properly equip his bachelor pad with everything he'll need to host his new baby girl overnight. He loves being a daddy! Cake was white with white chocolate ganache layers. Done using Sharon "Sugarshack's" instructions from her "Boxes and Bows" DVD. Sharon Zambito is the BEST TEACHER EVER!!! :) Gumpaste box lid, dried fondant (with Tylose) side panels. Microphone is fondant covered styrofoam ball and plastic dowel rod. Baby rattle is the same - styrofoam balls and plastic dowel rod.
2 tiered cake iced in textured buttercream with fondant details, then airbrushed. Idea for the waterfall came from several other CC'ers, thank you!!
Started with the Disney Princess Castle cake kit, and went from there! I was told that the little princess figurines were the birthday girl's favorite gift of the day....glad I could provide. :) 2 square tiers, covered in fondant imprinted with an impression mat. The castle turret tops are from the kit, but the columns are fondant covered PVC pipe. Vines and flowers piped on in buttercream
A Topsy Turvy cake made using Sharon (Sugarshack)'s DVD instructions to the letter! She's a GREAT teacher, it came out perfect! Fondant cake with ganache underneath, really makes a difference in the stability of a topsy turvy, I highly recommend it
This was by far the most difficult... and most fun (!) cake I've ever done. This is a 30th birthday cake for a guy who is a DJ. It's a replica of his Numark IDJ2 Mixer board and Sony Headphones. As you can see, the cord from the headphones spells the birthday boy's name. :) The headphones are fondant covered styrofoam and foamcore, but the mixer board is just a simple sheetcake.... that was the easy part. Using the detailed photos and dimensions on the manufacturer's website, I then painstakingly recreated each and every button, knob, lever, and "thing-a-ma-bobby." I had a pretty late night last night, needless to say.
Cake version of a friend's Jack Russel Terrier! Body was red velvet cake (of course, had to be gross about it) legs and head were molded out of rice crispie treats. Covered the whole thing in fondant, added some texture and airbrushed. Nose, eyes, and collar were painted on w/ gel color mixed w/ vodka.
Supposed to be a monster truck, but ended up looking more like a remote control toy, which was ok, seeing as how the birthday boy was only 2!! Fondant covered, with fondant and royal icing details. Wheels are chocolate covered donuts, idea for that came from the 2004 Wilton yearbook
All buttercream, top was done with an impression mat. Royal icing tiara from my own design, but overall design was inspired by several CC'ers, thank you!!!!
2 tiers in buttercream, airbrushed color and pearl over everything. Topper is a candle that I added to with fondant. Fish are molded in fondant, Sebastian and Flounder are transferred from photos found online. White chocolate shells, RI coral and seaweed.
Carved from sheetcake, stem is styrofoam covered in fondant. Dry brushed with gel color for woodgrain effect, also airbrushed for depth. Strings were piped on, didn't have time for the angel hair pasta this time!
Sculpted cake covered w/ buttercream. Figures are run in royal icing
Made this for my BIL's 30th Birthday... for those who don't get the reference, this is a replica of the album artwork from The Grateful Dead's "Terrapin Station" I modified it to make it into a birthday celebration! House is actually made of chocolate cookie and assembled like a gingerbread house. Details in royal icing, fondant, and gumpaste. Turtle figures are polymer clay sculptures, airburshed with thinned acrylic paint.
Hand painted fondant tiles w/ royal icing "grout"
Baby Einstein cake with the puppy from Backyard Animals on top. Puppy is RC treats covered w/ fondant, Cake is buttercream with piped buttercream catterpiller and writing
For a little girl who was having a beading party. Cake is fondant, gumpaste, as is bow and jewelry. Airbrushed, bow is painted with luster dust
RI covered baseboard, airbrushed in brick pattern, got the idea from another CC'er.... THANKS! Cake is MMF everything. Black fondant is pre-made Satin Ice.
For my sister's MIL's 50th Bday. Fondant with chocolate fondant panels on cake, lid is styrofoam with dried fondant panels. Gumpaste "tissue", bow and "50" topper. Gold highlighter accents
2 layer cake with white chocolate buttercream. The frog was scupted from fondant and also fondant lily pads. The cattails are fondant and spaghetti. :)
This was my entry for Pastry Chicago's "Haunted Creations" contest. I won! The "Bed" is 2 rectangular cake dummies stacked and covered with fondant. Everything else is a mix of either gumpase, fondant, royal, or modelling chocolate. Pretty much everything is airbrushed. Took me almost a month, working piece by piece.
For my dear friend's 30th birthday. He actually cried when he saw it.... AWWWW! Fondant and gumpaste everything, neck of guitar is fondant covered styrofoam suspended on sharpened dowels hot glued to the cake board. Strings are angel hair pasta painted with vodka and higlighter dust. Attachments on the guitar are gumpaste. Airbrushed royal blue with black shading. This one was easy in theory, but many hours were spent. :)
Done for my friend's bridal party. They were (almost) exact matches of what everyone was wearing. NFSC and royal icing.
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