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The topper for the blackjack birthday cupcakes. This silly little hat took me FOREVER to make. Eventually, I just ended up using a ball of fondant for the hat part, and a circle for the brim, and setting the hat part on top of the circle and shmushing (totally technical terminology) it together.
We went to Vegas with the birthday boy and so his cupcakes were blackjack hands and the topper cupcake had a ball cap on it, as he has a silly number of ball caps.
I really liked the final look of this cake. It was actually a deep cream, not as dark as it appears here. It was a really good, non-theme-y, non cheesy fall cake.
By request - a professional picture of my puzzle cake.
Buttercream iced with fondant bamboo, painted with a bit of gel colours mixed with clear vanilla. Actually, my first buttercream wedding cake!
All MMF, with royal scrolls painted with silver lustre dust. And the topper was SO pretty (and I never like floral toppers) - sprayed with a very elegant, subtle sparkle dust that was pretty, unique and not even remotely cheesy.
I did this cake for a wedding that I was a bridesmaid in (not a good idea!) and I pretty much got to pick the design. The sash is a gumpaste-fondant mix pearlized with Super Pearl and the flowers are gumpaste (my very first gumpaste roses).
These go with the little two tier!
This was a little two tier that went with the cupcakes for the same wedding. The callas are gumpaste and very non-professional, but you get the idea!
This was such an elegant, modern, pretty colour scheme. The cupcakes are all tied with little bows and topped with gumpaste flowers. DO NOT EVER agree to doing this or worse, suggest it like I did. Cupcakes are not solid, they're squishy and taper. Bows are slippery and tend to not stay on squishy, tapered things. Bad idea. Bad, bad idea! :)
The theme of this wedding was Hell Freezes Over! So, the bottom tier is flames getting icier up to a snowball topper. Not the prettiest cake, but certianly the most fun!
Another seriously time consuming cake, and we really underestimated that with this one. The flwoers took forever (all gumpaste with piped centers hand-painted with super pearl) as did painting all of the blue piping. But I'm thrilled with the result - another modern take on a fairly classic cake.
I've had a few people ask about scale and sizes and such, and since it is so impossible to acurately explain, I thought I'd just add this! Hope it helps!
Wow, was this cake a pile of work! 8 individual tiers, but only 4 are real - the three tier cake in the middle and the little 6" sitting on it. The base tiers are all dummies. My advice should anyone try one of these cakes - really, really think about it as you are doing it. We kept covering something in fondant and then remembering that that was one that needed to be carved. Figuring out what order to decorate and assemble it all in was tricky.
This bride was crazy about pink. I mean, I imagine that every wedding gift they got was part of KitchenAid's breast cancer awareness line! The bottom tier is a dummy and the rest are covered in MMF with gumpaste decorations dusted with pearl lustre dust. The bride loved it, even if I didn't!
I definitely don't have enough knowledge about golf to identify these, but they are all different parts of a course. Buttercream "grass" and "water" and graham crumb "sand" with MMF golf balls.
Another one!
These were fun - the design was totally up to me and it was a small amount, so I got to really go overboard. I love how they turned out. Buttercream swirl with fondant and gumpaste decor, some pearlized with Super Pearl Lustre Dust.
Simple, pretty cake with a disaster for flowers! The florist handed me the topper and instead of flowers for the tiers...three bouquets! So, the day before the wedding, I became a florist. I think it turned out to be a very pretty cake, but that was a very, very bad Saturday! :)
A two tier cake and a cupcake cake (with a golf ball topper) for one wedding.
I really liked this cake! It's sort of the perfect blend of modern and classic. All MMF, with royal icing scrolls.
This was a super cute colour scheme. The chocolate fondant is McCall's, because I just cannot make a decent chocolate. The rest was MMF.
Two tiers, 6" and 10", covered in MMF with MMF and gumpaste decor. It was such a pretty, feminine cake!
This was for a smaller wedding. Two simple, white MMF covered tiers with fuchsia ribbon and a floral topper. However, when I got the topper from the florist, it had a huge, poofy white satin bow on it. I couldn't bring myself to add that to the cake. It may have eaten the cake! So I took that off and replaced it with matching fuchsia ribbon, wrapped like a bouquet and with the ends trailing down the back of the cake. It ended up being really cute!
This is a better picture of the topper and gold flake.
I was so happy with how this cake turned out! It was a rich cream colour (MMF) with chocolate and gold MMF decor (Old Gold lustre dust). It was sprinkled with edible gold flake after being set up at the venue.
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