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Roses, hydrangea, and wisteria all handmade from gumpaste. The separator stumps are also made of gumpaste and textured to look like the real oak stumps used as the cake stand. The cake is covered in a non-crusting buttercream, which was a real challenge to make edges and keep them that way while moving the cake in the Deep Southern US July heat.
50th wedding anniversary cake for my wonderful mother-in-law. A joy to make for such an inspiring couple. Because there were several good bakers in the family, they each contributed a cake, thus the shape of my design. I iced it and decorated it with chocolate and handmade gumpaste pearls and topper. Grand Marnier orange with raspberry buttercream (bottom), chocolate with chocolate truffle, choco. and vanilla with Baley's buttercream, strawberries and bananas, creamy cheesecake, topped with an orange cake with honey,rum flavors and honey buttercream. The whole cake is iced with mouseline buttercream laced with cognac, then each layer is wrapped with Lindt white chocolate.
For a school Easter party. Bunny dragging a giant carrot. Bunny handformed with fondant. Carrot made from Rice Krispie Treats and wrapped in fondant.
BD cake for our science teacher. Eruption from dry ice and red whipping cream. Top of volcano was made from RKT and held a plastic cup. Valleys were cut down the mountain for the lava flow (thanks Melchas). Inside were layers of yellow and white cake with strawberry and chocolate cream fillings to represent the rock formations. There was a red cake center for the magma and vent.
Halloween cookies for second graders. Sometimes one only has to look at nursery rhymes for something scary. "She cut off their tails with a carving knife!" Pretty scary! The mice are made from chocolate dipped kisses and marichino cherries. They sit on butter cookies formed and iced to look like Swiss cheese. The cookies were presented in a box with the nursery rhyme written along the perimeter of the box lid. Thanks for looking.
Fondant covered square cakes trimmed with ribbons and edible chocolate fondant pearls. Cake sizes 12,10,8 and 6. With such a simple design there was not much room for "oops" and cover up. So it was a stressful cake for me to make. I assembled the last two tiers at the site and had to apply the pearls to blaring obnoxious music. I dropped 1 in 3 pearls, good thing I had spares.
The flounder is made of a thin slice of cake cover with fondant and airbrushed. I learned the finer points of flounder identification with this cake; this is a 'southern flounder'. I used corn syrup to give it a wet appearance which was fun, but the color details were obscured. The sand is raw sugar, the oyster shells and gig are made from gumpaste. The groom liked Cpt. Morgan rum so I used some to flavor the cake and filling, then found a sample bottle and covered it with sugar barnacles and buried in the sand bank. It was a fun cake to make and was the least stressful of the two (I also did the wedding cake).
A tribute to Dr. Seuss for the school. The characters were cut from gumpaste and free-hand painted. The fish and the candle are sculpted using gumpaste. The kite is suspended on a black wire that wraps around all the tiers. There are stacks of miniture books under the middle tier and the polka-dot dress is on the side of the 'cake', but they are not seen to well in this photo. The hat and the cake have red and white striped cake inside, and the box has a red and white polka-dot cake inside. I had tremendous fun designing this cake!
This birthday cake was a very rich hazelnut cake with Chocolate-Kalua mousse and iced with a white chocolate mousseline buttercream laced with cognac. The design was inspired by drawings in an Art Deco/NeuVeaux book.
This cake was made for a school party celebrating the children reaching their reading goals. It was a simple sheet cake with buttercream icing. This was my first time to use my new airbrush. I have alot more practicing to do, but it was fun.
My daughter (9) made this cake by herself as a summer time project. The mice and umbrellas were made from fondant and gumpaste. The water is piping gel. Colorful Nerd candies on the side of the cake were used as underwater rocks. Note the "sunburned" mouse.
Wall-E and Eve were made with the buttercream transfer technique. The "trash cubes" are cake squares dipped in swirled chocolate and stacked to make a corner of the cake.
Buttercream and white chocolate modelling clay. Unfortunately I did not anticipate the car to warm up so much that day; the modelling clay softened then broke. So the bow is a bit flatten. Tiger print on yellow, leopard print on orange, black buttercream panther lounging on top of bow. Daughter was thrilled despite the damage.
OptimusPrime for my son's birthday. Cupcake cake with a buttercream overlay.
This was a 'night before' request for a silent auction. It was inspired by Giselle of the movie Enchanted. The dress is made of fondant and buttercream; flowers are gumpaste.
The penguins and snowflakes were made from gumpaste and fondant. The snowflakes were dusted with superpearl petal dust to give them a sparkley icy look (which did not show too well in the pictures). The penquins were individually hand formed and hand painted.
I used the topsy-turvy cake style for the turbulent waters and cookies for the pirate ship. The treasure box, coins, jewels, swords, and shells were made from gumpaste and royal icing. Raw sugar was used for the sand. I used the extra cookie dough to make the "crew" in the foreground.
Hand formed and painted fondant baby resting on top of gumpaste rose petals and gumpaste roses. Fondant pearls on the border. Cake covered with very pale pink fondant.
Cupcake/cookie treats for second graders. Butter cookies (green of course) iced with a glaze, royal icing faces, white icing on cupcakes sprinkled with "gold". Delivery box lined with yellow tissue paper for more "gold".
A parrot for my daughter. After making a mess by trying to stencil in guide lines, I freehanded the parrot from a picture and piped each feather. There are random palmetto fronds on the side of the cake.
This is a birthday cake for my mother-in-law. The flowers are gumpaste and represent each of the states she has lived in. Magnolia (MS), pink and white lady slipper (MN), black eyed susan (MD), California poppies (CA), and although technically not the official flower, cherry blossoms for (Washington DC).
Hearts for the 2nd grade Valentine party.
Lime green gift adorned with free form daisies and twirlies accented with handmade edible pearls and topped with a bright pink gumpaste bow.
These cupcakes were inspired by the cover of a Wilton magazine. Instead of using molds for the animals, I used white chocolate clay and hand molded the heads, then applied the details with a paint brush. I added a jungle style cake box for extra fun for the first graders.
The topper is made of hand painted cookies on sticks as a space shuttle, solid rocket boosters, and an external tank. The first tier represents the launch fire with cookie flames and the bottom tier, the smolke/steam. During the late night assembly, I forgot to carve the top tier in a conical shape. My son was still delighted nonetheless.
Some cupcakes I put together for a church festival with my extra fondant and icing.
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