Our Anniversary Cake
Strawberry cake made in the sweetheart pan, vanilla buttercream and strawberry MMF accents (the dark shadows on the hearts are disco glitter). Made to celebrate mine and OH's anniversary tomorrow - 6 years of living in sin :-O! 1 child later and still haven't managed to get him up the aisle yet - commitment phobe anyone? lol!
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My Birthday Cake!
Didn't turn out exactly as I planned and I just couldn't get the fondant to mold around the petal shape cakes properly :-(. 6in lemon cake with lemon buttercream on top of 9in strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream. Covered in fondant, painted with glacier blue luster dust and then decorated with hand-rolled fondant pearls, borders and roses painted with inca gold luster dust. I am having a high tea tomorrow and will post a pic of the whole table when set up (lots of cakes!).
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Fondant Rose Cake
Found the direction for this one hard as is it for a man, so I didn't want to make it look too girly, but his wife insisted on a heart surrounded in roses! 9in vanilla butter cake filled with vanilla buttercream. Covered with fondant and decorated with fondant roses - everything handmade from scratch! Leaves, border, scrolls & writing are royal icing. I hope the wife like this - she's been a bit of a difficult customer already!
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Bluebird Housewarming
My OH's friend has just moved house and is having a housewarming party tomorrow night - so I made this as a housewarming gift. Based on an old Wilton yearbook design, vanilla cake baked in the 3D house pan on top of a 9in devils food cake filled with chocolate fudge buttercream. Whole thing covered in vanilla buttercream and decorated with royal icing drop flowers and roses (I'm still useless at piped roses!). Bluebirds are based on a Debbie Brown design in modelling fondant & have disco glittered wings!
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Cherny's Cake
My friend asked me to make a cake as it is her cat's birthday (I kid you not!). I just got several of Debbie Brown's books and really wanted to try a design out, so I chose this one! I think the wool would have been better in the original fondant, but my friend loves buttercream. Cherny (for it is the birthday cat himself that graces this version!), is made from sugarpaste with a bit of CMC added for stability, I lustre dusted his ears, nose & cheeks in pink just to do something a bit different.
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Back To School
Just finished this cake as a gift for the teachers at my daughter's school when they begin the new school year tomorrow. It says 'Welcome back teachers!' in Dutch. 11x7in 2 layer vanilla buttermilk sheet cake, filled with strawberry preserves & decorated in vanilla buttercream. All decorations are in marzipan (a Dutch favourite!).
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Brownie Wedding Tier Cake
So here it is in all its final glory. 128 2x2in fudge brownies all decorated with chocolate fudge icing and 50% topped with white chocolate shavings and 50% topped with crushed white and milk chocolate malt balls. Top cake was a 6in chocolate fudge cake topped with crushed malt balls, white chocolate shavings and chocolate sauce. Lustre dusted white chocolate malt balls and white chocolate monogram to finish it off. A close-up of the top cake is in my gallery if you want to see it better!
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Top Cake For Brownie Tier
that I am doing for a wedding tomorrow. Beneath this on the tall tier stand will be 128 decorated brownies - I'll post another picture when it's all assembled at the venue tomorrow! This is the 6in cutting cake - chocolate fudge cake, decorated with crushed maltesers, white chocolate shavings and chocolate sauce. I finished it of with lustre dusted white chocolate maltesers and white chocolate monogram.
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Strawberries & Daisies For Katy
This is a 10in strawberry cake from scratch, filled with strawberry pudding and decorated with strawberry buttercream. Strawberries, leaves & daisies are handmade from fondant and the little blue drop flowers and strawberry seeds are royal icing. Made for my friend Katy's birthday tomorrow.
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Jip & Janneke Teacher Appreciation Cake
Had a nightmare with this one - had to redo the top border as the first one melted off and slid down the sides of the cake - in the fridge!!! 12in 2-layer hexagon yellow cake filled with strawberry preserves. Decorated with buttercream, hand-painted fondant plaque of Jip & Janneke (famous Dutch children's literature characters) and fondant letters. Done as a gift to the kindergarten teacher from the children leaving the class to go to the 3rd grade. The kindergarten is named after these characters!
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Winx Club Fairies
My daughter's only wish was that she had a BIG cake and it had to be Winx Club in some way! I wanted it to be very girly just like her - 6in lemon top tier, 8in chocolate middle tier and the 10in bottom tier is strawberry - all from scratch with matching buttercream fillings. Whole cake is covered in homemade rolled fondant with edible disco glitter on the cut-outs and the wired topper. Winx fairies were bought (as part of her birthday gifts!). Borders are royal icing.
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Cake For My Daughter's Classmates
My daughter will leave peuterspeel (pre-school) tomorrow to start kindergarten on Monday. Her peuterspeel is called 'De Kladderkatjes' which translated to English means 'little scribbling cats' - hence my chosen design for the FBCT! I've made this cake for her to share with her classmates at snack time. Vanilla sheet cake, all iced in vanilla buttercream with sprinkles.
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Sunshine Cake
Made for Mother's Day for a friend's girlfriend. He wanted it to be the sun and to say 'Hanne Zonnetje' (which means Hanne - little sunshine). I added some orange pixie dust to the suns rays, just because I thought it looked so boring! He loved it though, and paid me twice as much as I asked for it - hooray!!!
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Mother's Day Cakes For My Girlfriends (And Me!)
I made these little 4in Mother's Day cakes as a surprise for my girlfriends and one extra for me (sad, I know!). Lemon pound cake filled with lemon curd and lemon buttercream. Decorated with lemon buttercream, MMF, flowers are a combination of royal icing and MMF.
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Butterflies & Flowers For Easter
We are going to an Easter brunch tomorrow at a friend's house and I volunteered to provide the 'sweet' stuff. Taking my Easter cookies and this cake. It's based on a design in a Wilton yearbook, but I've changed and added a lot to make it my own! 4, 6 & 8in 2 layer tiers of orange buttermilk pound cake with lemon curd buttercream filling and crumb coat, covered with MMF. Flowers are a mixture of MMF, buttercream and royal icing.
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Last Minute Job
Was asked at 3pm this afternoon to make a cake for pick-up tomorrow morning. Way under priced myself on this one (charged just 10 for it!), as was put on the spot - oh well, know better for next time! 10x6in single layer chocolate chocolate chunk pound cake decorated entirely in buttercream except for royal icing leaves. Roses are a freebie as I had a stash in the freezer that need to be used up - I'll definately let her know that this would normally be 20 (including the roses) when she picks it up!!!
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Unicorn Cake
Unicorn is a lemon buttermilk pound cake made in the 3D lamb pan. Base is 11 x 7" rectangle chocolate chocolate chunk pound cake. Both cakes iced in buttercream, horn (sprinkled with disco glitter and luster dust for a magical look!), and drop flowers made from royal icing and flowers around base made from MMF with royal icing details.