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Elvis!

I got this order late yesterday evening. Friend of a friend kind of thing. It was fun searching for just the right photo of The King. Orange cake with champagne flavored whipped buttercream icing.

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Peach, Green And Ivory

After participating in a discussion about this color scheme, I wanted to see how it would look. I like it...but my writing and roses still suck! This was my first attempt at cornelli lace, and while it's semi-OK...it's kinda in the same boat as my writing. Oh well...practice, practice, practice...

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Chocolate Polka Dots

I was testing a new white cake recipe and, of course, had to decorate it, too. I wanted to try chocolate curls for this non-occasion cake. Got nothing but chocolate flakes. But, it's OK. They taste good! :) Dots are spots of candy melts, done on waxed paper then peeled off and applied...flat side out.

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Congratulations Kelly!

I wanted to try Hockeymom's method of lettering. (Piping over an edible image.) It's definitely an improvement for me...but I need lots more practice. I decided toapply the same technique to the main image. There are times I want something more organic looking than a printed image. This works, I think. It's easier and quicker than an FBCT, and you can build up areas, making it sculptural.

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Clarinet Birthday Cake

My daughter plays clarinet and tomorrow is her birthday. She requested white cake with raspberry filling. I used a sleeved filling from my local cake supplier. DH Classic White with Dream Whip. Noncrusting buttercream with lemon exract. This is about 3 feet long and about 3 inches or so wide - except for the bell. The clarinet is 4 edible images laid end-to-end. Decorated with one of her favorite flowers in her favorite color. Easy and fun!

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Chocolate cake with Whipped Cream Buttercream icing, flavored with coconut and almond. Edible image, painted with gold along the edges of the ribbon, around the cameo and around the plaque. Quick little "make nice" cake for someone I just met.

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Better Cookies

These cookies look like what I was after when I was trying to make the basket. No Fail cookies, with Alice's Cookie Icing. The general advice is not to thin Alice's icing, because they won't dry correctly, but I couldn't get the look I was after without doing so. (I don't like royal icing...too hard on my teeth.) I'll come back after this afternoon's get-together and post a report on whether they stuck together or not.

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Wild Spring Flowers

I wanted to take this to my volunteer gig this morning, but the cookies are too ugly. I went ahead and made the basket for the practice, since I've never done these before. My ex used to complain that I had "too much craft stuff." He didn't use the word "stuff," though. :) He would be laughing if he knew I had everything on hand that I needed to do this...from the basket weights to the little bags. Maybe he was right. :)

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Welcoming Spring

After a drive through downtown yesterday, and seeing all the beautiful flowering trees, I couldn't resist doing a dogwood cake. Plus...I'd never used any of my oval pans, so it was just a fun thing to do. Crusting buttercream icing...gumpaste blossoms...fondant branch...edible ink leaves on wafer paper.

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Doves And Hydrangias

Forgive if this is posted twice. This is the period of time when the system is acting wonky. I needed a cake to take to a volunteer event and threw this one together but made the icing too soft. The border kept sliding down. The corners were especially bad...so I finally just scraped the darn things off and replaced with a big ol' pile of icing to hide the mess. But...the picture is purdy...and it tasted GREAT (carrot cake). Nobody noticed the mess.

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Latte Cake

This was a cake for us to eat. But, who needs a plain cake, right? So....it's coffee-flavored cake, made with the standard extended cake mix with instant coffee dissolved in the water....filled with cinnamon-laced whipped buttercream. Iced in vanilla buttercream. Covered in ivory MMF. Gumpaste mug, "aroma" and coffee beans. It is delicioius!

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My Sister's Birthday Cake

This is a White Almond Sour Cream Cake, iced with buttercream and filled with a mixture of buttercream and pureed apricot preserves. I brushed the layers with Grand Marnier prior to frosting. Edible image message. Fondant plaques with edible image floral sprays. Molded sugar vase. Gumpaste flowers. White chocolate plaques and pearls.

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My Cardboard Cake!

I intended for this to be a mix of the trendy and modern (tan color and strong vertical lines) with traditional (white roses and lots of piping). What I ended up with was something that resembles corrugated cardboard! :) Somehow, it works for me and I like it....but I was somewhat startled at the effect when I looked at the photos.

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Mass Of Blossoms

I've been thinking lately about smallish wedding cakes done all in buttercream that could be put together inexpensively and quickly. (This one was more work than I intended, but next time I'll use a bigger tip.) I wanted it to be irregular, and it was a challenge to get away from stars all in a row. But, all in all, it turned out pretty much as I envisioned. The first of a few modest, all-buttercream wedding cakes, I think.

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Dream Baby

This is a two-layer 10-inch, topped by a two-layer six-inch. One layer chocolate, one layer vanilla in both cases. Buttercream icing - crusting for the blue....whipped buttercream for the clouds. Fondant plaque with edible image topper. Fondant stars brushed with luster dust.

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Simple Shamrock Cake

This was just tossed together for family to eat. The shamrock was made by placing a heart-shaped cookie cutter on the surface and sprinkling colored sugar inside...and repeating three more times.

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Irish Setter Celebrates Saint Patrick's Day

Edible image on champagne-flavored buttercream. Dark chocolate cake.

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Juke Box Cake

I decided to do this after having suggested it to someone else. It was easy to SAY...difficult to do! I totally wrapped a stacked and carved cake with edible images. Somewhere along the line, I mismeasured something basic, and my images didn't fit. I had to chop them all up into pieces, so it's much sloppier than I intended. The checkerboard was a lot harder than expected, too. That's why I stopped and framed it with beads I already had from another project. :)

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Stained Glass Monogram

This is the two-step buttercream someone brought over from the Wilton site. Lovely to work with and not very sweet. The design was transferred over via a buttercream outline, just like a piping gel transfer, but I was running out of gel and wasn't sure I had enough to spare. The buttercream outlines worked fairly well. I got some skips in the design, but was able to fill them in. "Glass" is piping gel, of course. Next time I think I'll do an edible image, brushed with piping gel instead.

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Morning Glory Pickets

This is buttercream with gumpaste morning glories and picket fence. Not exactly in scale, but they work for me. :) I tried cutting the sweetness of my favorite buttercream by adding flour. That made it impossible to smooth. I finally gave up. And, oddly, the flour made it feel greasier in the mouth (it's a 2-1 Crisco/butter recpe).

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First Gumpaste Flowers

This is my first effort at gumpaste - in a molded sugar vase. This has taken me DAYS! I hope it goes faster when you get used to it. This will be a topper for my sister's birthday cake. I'm using a victorian rose theme on it. Hint to fellow newbies....try to remember to shade the petals BEFORE you arrange the flowers! :)

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Bear Bouquet

After a long day in the kitchen (and after throwing away a cake that was so inedible it made my disposal growl), I was getting tired, and this showed. I've never been able to do drop flowers very well. 20 years away from it didn't improve my skills in that department! Plus, I got bored and just "threw" a border on the top. This one was for us to eat, and it smelled so good. Motivation was low, I guess. :)

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My First Use Of Frosting Sheets

I had used wafer paper previously, but this was my first frosting sheet. Loved the outcome. It's tempting to do lots of this. :)

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Sassy's Pupcakes

These were made the same way the other doggy cake was made. I didn't size the images correctly and therefore the borders had to go too far out onto the edges...made a mess. Plus, they obscured the writing a little. I'm going to post the picture I used so you can see the art better. It's generic. Others could copy it and print it out for their cupcakes.

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This is a cake for a dog...not a people cake with a dog picture. No sugar was used. The cake has doggie treats in it, and the frosting is a very heavy milk and broth gravy, beaten with crisco. Edible image on wafer paper. I made the picture "artsy" and soft, and now I know I won't do that again, as the wafer paper softens images itself. But, not bad for a first edible image.

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Olympics 2006

The end of the Olympics always makes me sad it's over. I made this cake to commemorate this year's games. Chocolate cake, coconut and almond flavored buttercream. Gumpaste medals and flames. Fondant ribbons and rings. I will NEVER make anything like this out of fondant again! Should have piped in either royal or FBCT.

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