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The base cake turned out pretty cool (picture does not do it justice). I dry painted it with purple, 2 shades of green and luster dust. REally cool out of this world look. I had such a fit with the spaceship. I made it out of rice crispy treats, it was 3 pieces but the middle section broke so I could only use the top. Then that was the weekend of bad mmf...so hot it was melting. Overall - my nephew was happy with it.
This cake made me cry, it was mid-March HOT and HUMID - I couldn't bring myself to turn on the AC in March. So, my mmf melted - fell apart - basically hated me. So, it's not my best fondant work, but the birthday boy and parents loved. Note to self - if its so hot the fondant is melting - turn on the AC! 9 x 13 cut in half and stacked on itself, carved. Covered in raspberry red mmf. Rice paper for the logos (thanks chubbycheeks for the help).
Her is my second toilet cake. The first one was over a year ago so I was scared I would forget how to do it. I did not know how to use fondant on the first one - now that's all I seem to use so this one got a fondant treatment! Time was not my friend on this one, it was needed in the middle of the week so I had a hard time fitting it in. If I had more time (or more hours in the day) I would have added more detail to it. But, overall, I guess I'm happy with it.
If it's a cake for a 2 or 3 year old girl, it's got to be Dora! This is my 5th or 6th Dora cake. The mom wanted it to have lots of red and a valentines feel....so this is what I came up with. I've always wanted to try a checkered type cake, and I was wanting to practice making daisies (they are my favorite flower). It was a lemon cake with raspberry filling. I made the red mmf with raspberry crystal light powder... it helped to make it really red and the mmf tasted great!
OK, I stole this cake directly out of a Wilton book - but it really fit the baby shower theme and mom - she's a minister. I really wanted to practice sculpting figures out of gumpaste and I figured this one would give me some practice. I was about 85% happy with how it came out, but as we all know, practice makes perfect. It's a chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filling.
Here is Mr. Snowman. I made 10 of these during the holiday season (not to mention around 60 mini cakes). I don't think I'll be making any more snowman cakes for years to come! haha. Thanks for looking.
This is the third or fourth topsy turvy Dora cake I have done in the last few months - all for 3 year old girls. I keep trying to do them a little bit different so they all don't look identical. I really enjoyed this one. All mmf. Choc and yellow cakes. The birthday girly squealed when I dropped it off, so I guess that was a good sign. Thanks for looking!
This was a special cake for a special 5 year old with CP. He loves football and his aunt wanted him to have a fun, wacky shaped cake with things jumping out of it. Cake covered in mmf, hand painted, royal icing trails painted with gold luster dust. This took a long time...but it was fun and I was pleased. She shapes jumping out are chocolates from a Rams mold and other fun football shapes.
This cake was for 3 boys who love the Cardinals. The jersey was carved out of a 17 x 12. The hats were made from the betty crocker mini bake-n-fill pan. Everything is covered in mmf.
This cake was for my cousin's 3 year old daughter. She saw one of my Dora cakes and said she had to have her own, so this was my variation of my own creation. It had lot's of sparkle and she just loved it. White cake covered in mmf, gumpaste stars and butterfly's.
This was for my cousin's 7 year old son. He wanted a race car cake, we put some of his cars on at the party. I got my inspiration for this cake from hmarie_73...thanks so much! This was a huge cake - it was 12 x 17 chocolate cake with oreo cream filling, bc icing and the track was made from mmf.
This was a cake for my cousin's 13 year old daughter. She asked for something with camo colors and I was lost until I saw cakesbyallison's pink camo cake...thanks for the inspiration! This is bc with gumpaste bow's.
This was my special cake of the weekend. It was for my 6 year old niece. I've been wanting to try a pillow cake for a long time and finally got to do one. The base is a 8" round, the middle cake is a 9" square cut to shape, and the top is a 8" square pan. The tiara was made out of gumpaste and hand painted. The whole cake was luster dusted and the pearls were gumpaste.
This cake was made for my dd best friend who loves horses and provided me with the toppers. Cake was a 9" chocolate filled with oreo filling.
This was done to match the theme of the birthday party - the mom supplied me with a paper plate. The base cake was 12 x 17 chocolate, topped with a yellow cake baked in a one shaped pan, bc icing, mmf accents. The hand prints were made with a rubber stamper I got in the scrapbook isle.
This is my second baby shower cake. The person throwing the party wanted something simple, so this is what I came up with. It's chocolate cake with bc icing and filling.
Wow, this cake was a lot of work. It's the biggest party cake I've done (feeds 50). Chocolate Cake with oreo cream filling, and Bavarian Yellow cake with whipped chocolate ganache. Characters are color flow. Cakes covered in mmf and dusted with white shimmer. Chocolates are luster dusted with gold, silver and super pearl. Sea weed and flowers are royal icing....had a lot of fun with this one. Inspiration came from sugarshack...much thanks to all my cc friends who helped with all my silly Q's.
Little sister wanted in get in on the decorating action too...so this is my 3 year olds first decorating job. She tried really hard to ice her cupcakes - but asked Mommy for a little help. She cut out the mmf stars and pained all but one herslef...big sister helped her with the rest. So now all the girls in the house have been bit by the decorating bug!
This is my 8 year old daughters 3 decorating job - done all by herself. She even helped do the baking. We took these to a party along side of my Uncle Sam Slide cake - and she got more complements than I did (and rightly so!). The kids gobbled up her cupcakes faster than any other dessert. BC icing - mmf accents all hand painted. She did an awsome job...we are so proud of her.
This is the 2nd cake I did for the 4th. This was my nightmare cake...from baking to filling to decorating. I was happy to just get it done and over with. The only plus was that I used the Wilton spray on color for the first time and loved the ease of coloring fondant....now I can't wait to get an airbrush.
Here is my 4th of July cake. I was going for topsy turvy with a big tent feel. Covered in mmf, hand painted, royal icing snail trail, Uncle Sam is mmf. Top is 6" White Russian cake with choc. ganache filling, Bottom is 9" Black Russian cake with choc Ganache filling. Tasted awsome! Thanks to missjane for her inspiring Uncle Sam cake! Thanks for looking!
This is my 2 birds with one stone cake. I took a fondant class last night so I was already decorating a cake - and I had a new family start at my work - so, I turned it into their welcome cake. In my class I leared how to do swags, drapes and ribbon roses. I still need some more practice, but I guess it turned out OK. I just hope the family this is for will enjoy it.
This was my 8 year old dd's second caked she did (almost all by herself). The flowers were left over from her birthday party - she helped paint them. She also painted the tiera that I had made for practice. She torted, filled and did most of the icing all by herself. Picked her own colors and decorated all by herself. She has been bitten by the cake decorating bug too! Thanks for looking at it. She loves that!
My dd's, aged 8 and 3, wanted a flip flop cake for their birthday party - their birthdays are 1 day apart. So, we had a luau with flops. MMF flowers, bc icing, 2 cakes were choc with choc ganache filling, the others was coconut cake with coconut cream filling. I got lots of inspiration for these cakes righ here on cc.....thanks for looking.
This cake was for an end of the year girl scouts luau. All bc and chocolate bc icing, chocolate fundge cake with milk chocolate ganache - the smaller ones are candles, I used one of the candles as color inspiration. This cake was first inspired by sarascakes Totem Pole cake- many thanks to her. Thanks for looking.
This was one of my first topsy turvy cakes so my fondant work was not that great, but this is still one of my favorite cakes of all times. I called it Spongeberry Dorradumpling. It was for my daughters third birthday she is now about to turn 6where does the time go. She couldn't decide between Spongebob, Dora and Strawberry Shortcake or Apple Dumpling. So I gave them all to her. The Strawberry Shortcake and Apple Dumpling figurines were mine from 27 years ago.
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