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This is probably my favorite cake sculpture so far. I had fun working on it & I was able to try some new techniques with fondant that I had wanted to experiment with. He just looked like he was smiling back at me when I finished airbrushing him ; )
This was for a Halloween Birthday. I gave them the option of "Cartoon" or "Horror Movie" Style...they went for "HORROR" ; )
It has been soooo long since I've posted anything ...just thought I'd share this photo of a cake I did not long ago. I made it during a segment of a local TV show to demonstrate cake carving & fondant work. I plan on posting some other cake photos soon. Sorry I've been absent for the past several months...I've been surrounded by cake!!!!
Some say that his head wasn't screwed on just right... (see my forum post in "cake disasters" for the details)
DUCK HUNTING "CUTOUT" CAKE.
LOGO & MASCOT FOR USC SOUTH CAROLINA "GAMECOCKS" GRADUATION.
THIS WAS FOR A LOCAL BOOK CLUB THAT WAS READING MARY HIGGINS CLARK'S "NO PLACE LIKE HOME". ( SINCE THE MAIN CHARACTER IN THE BOOK WAS COMPARED TO LIZZIE BORDEN, I ADDED A DEEP RED RASBERRY FILLING TO THE CAKE FOR"FUN" )
THIS IS YET ANOTHER "LARGE HEADED" PERSON POPPING OUT OF YET ANOTHER VEHICLE. THIS TIME THE BIRTHDAY GIRL IS DRIVING A SQUAD CAR DOWN THE STREETS OF MAYBERRY, NC. ( ALSO BEING CHASED BY HER DOG ) I USED GREYTONES ONLY TO GIVE THE LOOK OF THE EARLY BLACK & WHITE "ANDY GRIFFITH" SERIES.
UNC NORTH CAROLINA TARHEELS LOGO & MASCOT. 3-D RAISED DETAILS.
FIRST TIME TRYING A "LEANING" WHIMSICAL CAKE. ( THE "HOW TO" ARTICLE ON CAKE CENTRAL WAS A GREAT RESOURCE!) THE COLORS WEAR "PULLED" FROM SOME OF THE COLORS FOUND ON "PEACOCK" FEATHERS.
3-D DETAILS OF THE B-DAY BOY & HIS DOG RIDING IN HIS BELOVED JEEP. ( I SEEM TO HAVE A COLLECTION OF LARGE HEADS POKING OUT OF VARIOUS VEHICLES)
"LEGO" TOY VERSION OF OBI WAN. MADE THIS FOR MY NEPHEW'S B-DAY. HE IS REALLY INTO LEGOS & ALL THE STAR WARS MOVIES.
Fondant covered styro cake. Real flowers & leaves. This was a "dummy cake" at a bridal show I participated in erlier this year.
This was for a friend's 40th birthday. He owns a classic 1964 VW Bug that he takes to regional car shows. The car is iced in buttercream. The caricature "Head" is made of maccaroons covered in fondant. The sign posts are metal curtain rods. The signs were created & printed using my computer. The roadway sign reads: "WELCOME TO LIFE IN THE NOT-SO-FAST LANE".
I molded & painted fondant into a "caricature likeness" of the birthday girl. She is a huge "I Love Lucy" fan, so I thought it would be fun to depict her as "Lucy" in the "Vitameatavegamin" episode. The "Head", Bottle, and her two Dogs are 3-D. I covered two dowels with foil for the "rabbit ears" on top.
Thanksgiving Weekend, family is here from Charleston, SC.They are heading out Friday to the big game ( GO TIGERS! ). For fun I depicted my niece & nephew as lucy & charlie brown in the famous "football kick trick" scene.
Cake made for a Bridal Show "Cake Dive" event. Styrofoam bottom layers, iced in buttercream. Iced Angel Food cake for top layer as well as "ruffles" on botom layer. Topped with "CAKEMAN!" cutout. Small "engagement rings" were placed throughout the real cake portions. Four Brides in painter's jumpsuits "dove in" (outside) and retreived four rings with different colored "gems" representing a specific prize.
Sculpted from chocolate cake.Iced with buttercream.Face & smokestack shaped from molding white candy coating. Cookie wheels. Foamcore "smoke".
This was made for a suprise "un-birthday" for two ladies that would be turning 50 in December. They both do syncronized skating & the husbands wanted to suprise them in June with an "un-birthday" / "Over The Hill" themed party. The ice edges are made from fondant & the legs and arms are also shaped from fondant formed over "lollypop" sticks.
Marzipan "fruit" drying before a second coat of color & shading. Pep work for the "Gady" style cake that I did for a wedding this weekend.
Fondant covered cakes. Marzipan vines & leaves. Each fruit was hand made from coconut macaroons covered with a thin "skin" of marzipan. Painted each pear & orange with thinned out paste colors. Topped with a whole clove "stem". The design was based on a cake of Gady's as featured in the JC Penney's recent bridal campaign. The reception site was decorated with real pears & oranges, so it all tied in nicely to the whole theme.
Cap & diploma for high school graduation. Top of cap is made from a square of white "chocolate" candy coating covered in colored fondant. Tassel made of rolled fondant. Diploma also rolled fondant. Cake is a half sheet iced in white buttercream.
This was my first time making flowers and ribbons from fondant. I made this "dummy cake" for a Bridal Show display that I attended this past weekend.( First time at a Bridal Show too...) I based the design from a photo in a recent wedding magazine.
A top view of the Groundbreaking/Construction cake.
Half sheet cake with textured grass, dirt mounds & gummi worms. Iced in buttercream. Airbrushed coloring. Cookie crumb "dirt" sprinkled over top. Made two of these as serving cakes to go with 3D Groundbreaking cake.
Buttercream "fondant" rolled out thick & cut out with various leaf cookie cutters. Pressed in the "veins" with rounded end of a small artist brush. Pressed leaves into a "pile" over a chocolate iced 2 layer 8 inch round cake. ( First time trying the rolled buttercream "fondant" ).
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