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Camo Hunting Theme

8 and 5 inch rounds covered with fondant. Added a layer of fondant camo, made off the cake, to the bottom tier. Leaves, acorns and pine needles are gumpaste. Pinecones are modeling chocolate made with Jennifer Dontz's AWESOME new pinecone mold!

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Miniature Thanksgiving Dinner

The cake is 12x6x4. Everything is hand modeled from gumpaste or fondant. Real candles are in gumpaste candlesticks. Damask stenciling on fondant tablecloth. Whew, what a project!

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Owls And Fall Leaves Cookies

Spice cookies and fondant decorations. Design inspired by a box of tissues!

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Insane Asylum

Everything on this Halloween birthday cake is edible! Building is covered in marbled fondant panels and fondant trim/accents. Front doors and trees are chocolate. Bats are edible paper mounted on uncooked Thai noodles. Rice paper guest list on the door.

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African Safari

Africa cake sculpted from a 9x13 and an 8x11 and covered with marbled fondant. Fondant+tylose animals; Wired fondant and RKT acacia tree. I made the dolphin for this little boy's cake last year, but wound up not using it. Glad I saved it. :)

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Glitter Leaf Redux

This is today's version of a cake I made in 2004. Fondant covered with fondant cutouts. Cutouts and outlining have been painted with a mixture of pixie dust and glitter gel. This and the grooms cake were delivered at 6pm when the outside temp was 105F (40C). Nerve-wracking!

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High School Graduation Cake And Cupcakes

Tapered cake covered with fondant. Cap is cake. All fondant accents. Filled cupcakes topped with buttercream swirl and fondant paw.

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750 Toes!

75 baby cookies covered with fondant. Fondant feet were individually hand-molded, then toes piped on with royal icing. All other details are royal or fondant. Each cookie was individually bagged and sealed with a flap of scrapbook paper. Cookies accompanied the classic Wilton baby cake.

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Christmas Marbled Cake Balls

Chocolate hazelnut cake balls coated with tinted white chocolate, marbled.

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Spiderman On Brick Building

4 layer, 6-inch square. Everything is fondant except the webs, which are royal icing, and the sign, which is gumpaste with an edible image. Oh, and Spiderman, of course, which is plastic. :) Sanding sugar on the roof.

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Disney Princess Castle

12 inch hex bottom and 6 inch hex middle chocolate cake. Rectangle top is RK/cocoa krispie treats, as are all the round towers. Tower roofs are white chocolate covered with a mixture of rainbow glitter and pink luster dust.

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Call Of Duty Paintball

Single layer 14x19 Wilton diamond pan. Covered in black fondant; fondant letters and camo; royal icing splats.

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Southwestern Pottery And Sambuca

This was my way of incorporating unrelated themes. Southwest/kokopelli/gecko and Sambuca. Pottery is 5 layers of cake covered in marbled fondant; fondant accents; finished with confectioners glaze. Glass of Sambuca is all Isomalt (and real coffee beans). I made a silicone mold for the glass. Flames are pulled isomalt with a touch of blue luster dust at the base.

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Halloween Cupcakes

Black chocolate cats, witch hats and spiders. White chocolate molded skulls. Ghosts are fondant over a malted milk ball. Fondant moon with candy bats.

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Fantasy Flowers

This was for an adult birthday. 11-8-5 covered in chocolate fondant. All flowers made of gumpaste. I made this cake in 2008.

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Belle Barbie Cake

Wonder Mold pan plus single layer petals. All buttercream iced. Fondant swags made from a mold. Drop beads also made from a mold. Doll is a real Barbie. I made this cake in 2006.

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Luau Wedding

This was to celebrate a scuba-diving-loving couple's marriage and new baby. Carrot cake with alternating cream cheese and pineapple fillings. Fondant covered; Many thanks to ladyonzlake for her fabulous scuba diver. Fondant bamboo; EI margarita topper. Chocolate cupcakes filled with chocolate hazelnut fudge and topped with bc swirl. Cupcakes are displayed on various pieces of The Cupcake Tower

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Ocean Stingrays

Okay, so I got a little carried away on this cake for an 8-year old to serve 30. :) 7x4 stacked on top of 10x4; also 9x3 and 7x2, cut to fit all covered with fondant (board, too) and airbrushed. All animals made of fondant; lots of coral techniques-microwaved royal, chocolate over ice, non-pairels over royal (with and without wires). Lacy plants are unbreakable gel.

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Bustier And Panties

For a bachelorette party. 9x13, sports ball pan, plus additional pieces from 8 inch squares. WASC with cream cheese filling. Covered with fondant. Embellished with lace mold, hand painted gold.

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Cosmetology Grad Cupcake Tower

For a high school cosmetology program graduate. White and chocolate cupcakes; vanilla and chocolate fudge buttercream; all embellishments made of royal icing except the scissors, which are fondant. The blow dryers are my favorite! Leopard print flowers on the cake balls were made with edible images.

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Girl Scout Gold Award

Replica of the 2010 GS Gold Award pin made as a gumpaste plaque. Set atop a fondant covered 11-inch round cake, the plaque was 18 inches in diameter at its widest and 12 inches at the narrowest points. Cake was sprayed with gold luster aerosol, then airbrushed with black to produce a dark, bronze-like finish.

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Skunk In Bow

The only info I had was that the little boy loves skunks! 6 and 8 inch squares covered in fondant. Skunk is made of gumpaste and bow is fondant+tylose. Hand-rolled fondant ball border.

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Jimmy Buffet Theme

For a Jimmy Buffet themed party. 9 and 5 inch white cake with pineapple/coconut and strawberry fillings covered with marbled fondant. Margarita is a two-sided edible image with sanding sugar around the 'rim'; all other details fondant or gumpaste.

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Calla Lilies And Brooch Wedding Cake

5-8-11 inch rounds covered in ivory fondant; gumpaste callas; brooch is gumpaste painted with silver highlighter and sugar gems; side medallions are gumpaste painted silver. Inspired by a design by Andreas Sweet Treats on flickr.

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Calla Cake Truffles

chocolate hazelnut cake balls dipped in tinted white chocolate. Fondant callas.

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Graduation For Drama Major

Two tiers, 9 and 5 inch rounds, caramel cake with ganache filling, buttercream icing; fondant curtains, EI marquee on gumpaste; gumpaste masks and graduate.

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