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Made for a little girl's 1st birthday. Big family gathering! The "Barn" is just plain ole yeller cake (lol) but lots of added amentities. The "pond" was her smash cake and the haystack was for her little friend.
For the AA's in my DH's office. Just played around with the flowers.
For a guy retiring in my DH's office. He is a runner so I thought the footprints were appropriate.
Had a heck of a time trying to decide how to decorate a german chocolate cake. Decided on the horse theme since the birthday girl (23) will be going horseback riding for her birthday. This was the first time I ever made the coconut-pecan filling from scratch and boy is it YUMMY!
Found this recipe on the Coffee-Mate/Nestle's website and oh my gosh......I used instant espresso coffee and felt like I was on a caffine "high" the whole time it was baking and when I was mixing the icing. Not to mention taste-testing. Can't wait to cut into it tonight at "D"'s birthday dinner. The decorations are chocolate.
Cake made with fresh strawberries and strawberry jello. Yummy! Cream cheese icing that actually crusted. Yippy! Used a whole packet of powdered Dream Whip for two lbs of PS and it worked. Attempted covering two with red (Toba's) glaze, but it took two coats to cover the icing. Probably wouldn't try this again. The cake stand was three plastic trays with vases in between as separators. HINT: Use something to stick the vases to the trays so they won't topple over when cakes are being removed.
First, I would like to thank Serious_Cakes for the inspiration and for the helpful hints. Her how-to video really helped! As soon as I saw her's I knew this is what I wanted to make for my niece's bridal shower at a Bed & Breakfast Tea Room. The 6" cake and cupcakes were Chai Tea w/ BC, all other pieces (spout, handles, steam, spoon and teacup pedestals) were candy clay.
This is the 3rd year I have made these and I still love them! I think next time I am going to try embossing the MMF, for a different look, and then paint them with luster dust.. TFL
My family and I made this ginger bread house display for the local Rotary Club's Annual Ginger Bread Contest. The house and Emerald City were ginger bread, tornedo was RKT covered with 6 pounds of RI and everything else was candy and MMF. We won "Best in Class Amateur Fantasy". We can't wait till next year! p.s. We first tried using cotton candy for the tornedo but it melted away over night. Good thing we started early and did a trial run.
Birthday cake for my niece who now goes to a school for the arts. Her specialty is drawing and painting. I took the little bags of colored icing to the party and the had soooo much fun adding their own artistic expression to their slice of cake and then started decorating each other with the icing. It was fun watching all the little artists going to town on each other.
A little something for my DH's birthday. I had been wanting to try the Lambeth method ever since I got back from the 2008 ICES Convention in Orlando. So this is some of want I learned in Carolyn Wanke Mangold's demo. Definately not compitition quality but I think it will do for my DH. lol Inside is turtle brownie cake made with a brownie mix and a cake mix. Another first for me! TFL
Fresh strawberry cake with BC. MMF record on top and on the sides.
I have been wanting to make one of these ever since I saw the first one. thank you to all you CCers out there that went before me. You are all such inspiration and great help! This has got to be the first cake I ever decorated that took me less time than expected. Woohoo!
I told my daughter this was all I could afford from Tiffany's for her birthday......a shopping bag. lol One 9x13 cut into thirds and stacked. Lots and lots of MMF.
For a little girl's 1st birthday. Her mommy said she loves fishys. (2) 6" rounds. All buttercream except for the Nerds candies for the gravel.
24 cupcake cake. Changed the name to the birthday girl's name. BTW, I highly recommend the movie....it was great!
This was for my daughter's graduation. She will be returning to UF this summer to begin her graduate study in Occupational Therapy. The Bible is chocolate with chocolate BC and chocolate MMF. The OT book is strawberry with fresh strawberry BC covered with white BC. The gator is yellow cake with BC. And the cap was made with dark chocolate.
Started with a two layer 9x13 cake, carved out the surfboard from the top layer and used the pieces to extend the bottom layer for the water. Used Wilton's Sparkle gel, in a tube, for the water. It really has a cool look to it. The rubber chicken is because the birthday recipient collects rubber chickens.
The story is told that the birthday girl, who is turning 50 BTW, swears she has seen a pink armadillo standing up on its hind legs. I used the cutoff carrot cake and mixed it with the leftover cream cheese icing to make armadillo eggs (cakeballs).
Why oh why do I keep getting requests for animals? LOL Well this is my take on a Hawaiian Luau theme. Just changed up the details from my previous Bar-B-Qued PIG! TFL p.s. The whole thing was devoured in less than 1 hour! They sure like CAKE.
Well I finally did it! Carved a FOX. Started with two 9x13 layers and a cupcake made in the mini ball pan. It was fun but so stressful because it was to be displayed at an International Hunter Jumper Association dinner for 1000. Used a sour cream pound cake recipe so it would be sturdy. All buttercream except for MMF/Gumpaste ears and nose. It was the hit of the dinner Only about 40 people were lucky enough to get a slice. P.S. Thanks to several of you CCers for input in helping with this project.
Last year I couldn't find the mini ball pan to make the cupcakes soooooo I made Christmas Ornament cakeballs. This year I just had to try the cupcakes. Cakeballs.....Cupcakes......either way they are just so much fun!
My first attempt after watching the Sugarshack DVD. Love the smooth icing with no air bubbles. I never seem to make enough icing to lay it on thick enough to scrape off to get those sharp sharp edges. But I'm gonna keep trying.
There are not 40 blossoms on the cake. The Japanese symbols represent "40" which was the birthday gal's age. Shhhhhh, don't tell! Used the Chai Tea Cake recipe here on CC but cake has not been cut as of this upload. I'll let you know how they liked it. The branches and symbols are made out of modeling chocolate a friend gave me. I love that stuff! Icing is flavored with chai tea covered in MMF. Blossoms are also MMF. TFL
....for a chocoholic. Devils food with chocolate BC. University's colors are blue and grey, hence the blue roses with grey squiggly thinks and accents. Tried to be a little creative with the borders. MMF scroll.
Coconut cake with lime curd/BC icing. Decorations are MMF with 2 tablespoons of lime juice added (yummy). Added a single drop of liquid green food coloring to piping gel to make all the juicy parts.
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