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Bible For Christening

This is for my nephew's christening today. I had planning to cut all the design and text with my cricut, but it wasn't working out right, so I dug out the old standbys, the Wilton letter and design presses.

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Gilded Chocolate Chips

Gold always dresses up the simplest outfit ;) I wanted to do something simple but pretty, so I tossed some aztec gold luster dust with semisweet morsels, and they took the color so well!

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Giant Cupcake

I wanted to do something simple for my own birthday cake, and everyone thought it was the cutest thing!

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Blue's Clues

I don't usually like to rely on character pans, but my niece is a huge fan of Blue, and what she wants, she gets.

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Orange Creamsicle

My boss's favorite cake is Wendoger's Orange Creamsicle cake, so this year, I decided to make it LOOK like a creamsicle.

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Brush Embroidery

I've always wanted to try this technique. It was also my first time working with Choco-Pan fondant, which is a little softer and stickier than my usual Satin Ice. I hope it tastes good at least.

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Memorial Day Barbeque

The thread about stuff you regret buying got me to try my "two color piping bags" and the Wilton garland marker, and unfortunately they'd both fall into that category. I was just trying a simple design for a family barbeque and between the hard-to-fill bags and the garland marker than never fails to dent the top edge of the cake, this took way longer than it should have. At least it will taste good.

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Stained Glass Flowers

I've wanted to try this technique for a while. I got the design from "The Ultimate Design Source Book for Crafters". I used a little too much piping gel for the flowers, so the colors ran a little. I found it easier to use a stiff paintbrush to put the blue and green gel in place. It's less even so it look more like stained glass.

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An Audition

This is a copy of a beautiful cake by peggylicious (hers is much better!). I got a chance to try out for a part time cake decorating job at a very big hotel here on Long Island, so I needed a design I thought I could pull off in an afternoon in their kitchen. I don't think it's my best work, because I was rushing to keep up a professional pace, and I don't think I'm ready to work in such a hectic atmosphere. But if was a worthwhile experience anyway, and I'm glad I got the opportunity.

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Pisces Birthdays

Felt like having a little fun with Americolor's "electric" colors for my bro & SIL's March birthdays. I let each of them pick a flavor, so it seemed inevitable that I would have to do a two-tier cake.

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Funky Valentine

This is for my own birthday, which is on Valentine's Day. I just wanted to finally use my paisley pans. Covering them with fondant wasn't as hard as I feared, but it's still not as perfect as I'd like. These are airbrushed with Americolor's electric purple and electric pink. (The purple was a bit darker than I expected.) The ropes and hearts were then painted with the airbrush color to make them match the color of the tiers. Then the whole thing got a spritzing of pearl dust.

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Christmas Cookies

NFSC painted with Toba's Glace and adorned with colored sugars. I went a little crazy this year and made more than eight dozen!

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Winnie The Pooh

This is for my niece's 1st birthday. The beehive is her smash cake -- a mini-doll pan cake iced in sugar free cream cheese icing at my SIL's request. I thought the healthy icing was nasty but it didn't interfere with Ava's enjoyment of the cake. When we left their house, they were preparing to wash the icing out of her hair, clothes, high chair, etc.:D

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Bright Graphic Fondant

My rationale for buying an airbrush was to save myself the trouble of kneading color into fondant. I was very pleased with how deep and rich I could get this red, and a little surprised by the shine that spraying imparted. What I need to learn now is PATIENCE -- airbrushing heavy bold colors requires DRYING TIME. My white circle cutouts started sliding down the sides of the cake!

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Halloween Cookies 2007

My brother asked for cookies for his Halloween party "because they are easier". Hmm, easier for who?! I think I spent more hours on these than on most of the cakes in my gallery! Found out Toba's Glaze is tasty and doesn't dry tooth-cracking hard like royal, but it's a little soft for detail work. I used a food doodler pen for the writing on the tombstones.

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Sotas-Covered Hexagon

I made this for my boss's birthday. It's all buttercream, airbrushed pearl, with royal icing flowers, also pearled. She squealed "ooooh, it's so pretty and so GIRLY!"

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Airbrushed Bubbles

Was having some trouble coming up with a design for a guy at work, so I thought I'd use it for airbrush practice. I made the circle stencils with my Sizzix die cutter and some laminated cardstock and just played with different pressure and mixtures of airbrush color (straight blue, blue mixed with white, straight silver, and silver mixed with blue). The silver dots just look grey here but they look silver in person. I'm not crazy about the top of the cake, but the sides look okay.

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Royal Icing Petunias

My first attempt making any royal icing flowers with the lily nail. The real test will be if I can remove them from the foil once they are dry ;) They are the flowers that will go on my boss's birthday cake. I'm not even sure how I'm going to use them, just knew I wanted to make orange flowers because her cake will be orange-flavored. The small ones use tip 103 with the 1-5/8" lily nail. The large ones use tip 124 with the 2" nail.

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Gotta Love Those Viva Paper Towels

Mom asked for a cake for our Labor Day barbeque and asked "can we have SOFT icing this time?" Apparently she is tired of my fondant experiments. The sides of the cake came out so wonderfully smooth with the Viva method that Mom didn't believe it wasn't fondant until she tasted it :)

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Daisy Bridal Shower

This is for my cousin's shower tomorrow. The only guidance I got from her is that she likes greens and daisies. I culled inspiration from alot of different cakes here (gotta love that search function). The fondant is Satin Ice colored avocado and dusted with green luster dust, the daisies are gumpaste with cornmeal centers, and the white trim is royal icing. I included a close up of the topper.

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Baby Clothes Shower Cake

Thanks to all the other cakes of this design... you were all the inspiration for this. It's an all-Cake-Central affair -- Sarah's Red Velvet Cake & Crusting Cream Cheese icing from the recipe section, and all that great fondant advice from the forums.

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Birthday Presents

This is the easiest cake I ever decorated. The presents are Starburst candies. All the instructions came from Betty Crockers "New Cake Decorating".

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Chocolate Fondant And Gold

Another attempt with Satin Ice fondant, this time working around the corners of the hexagon pan. The cake is a yellow butter cake filled with chocolate buttercream, Dad's favorite flavor combination. I had no idea how long painting with luster dust was going to take, but I really love the effect.

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Mom's Birthday Cake

My first attempt at royal icing roses. (They came a bit flat. I'll practice more when my hand stops hurting!) Brushing them and the fondant rope trim with pearl dust added a nice little touch, I think. I'm still learning to work with fondant, so it's a bit lumpy and stretched in places. I'd welcome any constructive criticism on how to improve the fondant. Thanks for looking.

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Mothers Day 2007

I had so many flowers left over from the christening cross that I just had to use them here. Cake is strawberry with strawberry filling and cream cheese icing under fondant. The fondant is not as smooth as I would have liked, but I don't have much experience with it yet. You guys get to see it before the Moms at tomorrow's barbeque.

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Ballet Slippers

Made this for my cousin's 8th birthday. It was very simple, just a 13x9 sheet cut and shaped slightly. The cloth texture came from patting the icing down while wearing a pair of dough kneading gloves.

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