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This was a gift for my boys music teacher, it is his first year anniversary. Chocolate Cake with white chocolate icing, white chocolate candy clay covering and flowers. Couldn't get the candy clay to lay smooth so I just pleated. I like the way it turned out.
Made this for an Italian customer whose husband loves log cabins, squirrels, and mountains. first floor part is family recipe for red velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese BC and second floor and roof is Dark Chocolate Fudge cake with mocha BC made with homemade Vanilla Bean Coffee Liquer. All covered in Homemade Dark Chocolate Candy Clay. Smoke coming from chimney is Royal icing. Had my boys holding a blow drier to it for 30 minutes so it would dry in time. Yikes
Made these cookies to go along with Briget and Michaels cakes. This is only the second time doing royal iced sugar cookies but I think they turned out pretty well. My 18 month old sure liked the taste of about half of what was supposed to go to the customer. Man he is a garbage disposal!
Made this for my son's class. They had a mother's Day tea. I orriginally wanted to make cupcakes with a Tiara on top for each mother but 7 cakes to do in one week by myself, 2 dozen cookies and then making all the tiara's was virtually impossible unless I totally neglected my 3 kids for the week so I did 5 tiaras and just did this. Hope you like it! Tiara's are my own designs.
This was a last minute cake. Chocolate cake with caramel filling, milk chocolate BC, and homemade chocolate rolled fondant (first time making it, I think I screwed up somehow, it looks like cracked leather to me) The only info I was given on the recipiant was that he liked yellow and was (a gentle soul)? But they reallllly liked the cake. That is what matters, right?
All roses are hand sculpted in White Chocolate Clay, homemade fondant (not MMF) Cake is White Chocolate Yellow cake with Lemon Mousse filling and white chocolate BC.
Inspired by Colette Peters, tiara is made of royal icing and is my own design, bottom cake is red velvet cake made pink with white chocolate cream cheese frosting and top cake is white chocolate whisper cake with raspberry preserves as filling and raspberry buttercream for frosting.
Made this for teachers appreciation week. The flowers and coverings are all white chocolate or fixed fondant. This is my first crooked cake. Man was I nervous to put that dowel through!!!! IT worked out well though :)
David's bookreport was on Badgers this time and he wanted another cake for a visual. So here it is. That is a badger sticking out of the left hand side of the cake. It was a quick slap together but the kids loved it and it was fun
Second cake for the Baptism in Vatican. They wanted St. Peters on it with Swiss Guards. Man were they hard to do. It didn't quite turn out like I wanted but I will do better next time.
One of my client's is having their Daughter baptised at the Vatican and they ordered two cakes for the occasion. This is the first sheet cake I have done. Man they are not as easy as they look...also my first viva method cake. I like it and know I will do better next time. All flowers and the baby are made with candy clay.
This is from Debbie Brown's 50 Easy Party cakes. It was pretty fun to do. I used candy clay to cover him instead of fondant. It is easier to shape and mend seams than fondant to me. I have some boo boos on it but I am still learning.
I tried to do the striped chocolate wrap that was just recently put on the forum here, well my chocolate was cooling WAY too fast and I couldn't wrap it around the cake (cold BC might have been part of the problem too) anyways I just switched it to tiles instead. All of the flowers are made with homemade candy clay. 6 inch cake on bottom, biscuit cutter cake on top.
The cake with my peeps is FINALLY done. It was a nightmare. Customer wanted this cake because she was getting her marriage confirmed by the catholic church. We decided to do a kind of "this is your life" theme to the cake. All the parts of their life that are on the cake are on the following photos. When I was putting this together, The girls arm fell of twice, the guys arm fell off once and her nose fell off.
This is where they moved to England and Lived in an English Cottage.
One of the sample cakes. close up
My son David wanted me to make him a cake for a book report that he was doing, I told him to pick out his favorite scene and we would work on it. Originally it was the Aunts being squished which would have been MUCH easier, but then he got his heart set on the peach landing on the Empire state Building. Man was that a challenge, got it to the school ok and ran before I could see anything happen to it....curious 4th graders, falls, droops, cracks...etc. Pretty proud still.
This was a playing around cake, gonna donate it to the Labor and Delivery ward nurses and doctors. colored Roses are starburst roses with luster dust white ones are fondant along with everything else..well that and royal icing. First time doing stringwork, fondant ribbon wrap, and royal icing design patterns. Really need to practice more. I need dummy cakes. My DH doesn't want to give the cake up. Awwwwww...so sweet
These are all the starburst rose cookies together.
It is kinda blurry but you can get the drift of it. I am going to make a couple more for the function. Danjo and David love to steal them and eat them petal by petal. Goobers :)
So, I thinned out my icing and these look better to me. The cloud ones were my sons idea and the roses on two of them are starburst roses. I love making those. TASTY!
These are the first royal icing cookies I have ever done. My white royal icing was too thick. Better ones coming once my son takes his nap. I have to make 12 dozen of these for a school function. Good thing I love decorating. I wouldn't have had the courage to try if it hadn't been for you guys. Used the no fail sugar cooke recipe. It is true. Ya can't fail!
Had an extra 6 inch from last (and first) order so I decided to experiment. This is my first "drape" along with swirly thingys (the technical term ya know) I think my royal icing was too thick.
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