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Quilted Cake
Delivered and set up today.....Three different flavored/type cakes: Bottom level Butter yellow cake (Mousse in place of milk) second tier triple chocolate fudge truffle cake with chocolate mousse/ganache filling (dare to be different) top tier traditional white with whipped white vanilla mousse filling. Each of the little red dots is actually a candy..and there are over 400 of them,over 40 of the 10K sugar diamonds from global sugar,gourmet gold and .999 sterling adornments...we figured about 110 hours in.
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Doing It The Hard Way
This is the top tier of a three tier wedding cake (I did not assemble it for pictures as some is still fragile)...Cake is french vanilla with a whipped custard filling and covered in Satin Ice.Rather then doing royal icing dot work I chose to make it utilizing white non parell candies. Also 22K gold used to accent and mark the dowel position.The heart in the center is a cast white chocolate piece using red dots to appear liked rubies.
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Middle Of Three Tiers
This is part of a wedding cake...This is chocolate/chocolate fudge mousse. Covered in Satin Ice "Wedding White".....At each intersection of quilting is a on parrel "Dot".....with gumpaste drop swags.Shortly after this picture was taken a gumpaste heart adornments was placed to cover and improve the joints of the swags. These were guilded with edible gold sheeting and .999 sterling silver sheet (also edible)....Not visible in the picture is the 3 rose embriodery on the top of the tier.
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4 Hour Bake,icing,deliver
Another OOPS! date of delivery changed and we forgot to tell the guy making the cake!....this was while it was still drying....On site the icing was smoothed to a better level....You can see the toothpicks holding the handles in place since they are still too wet to stand on their own.
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3D Dora
This is the figure that goes with the backpack cake. The figure is over 3lbs. of chocolate molded onto a copper understructure....then carved and colored.The sign is gumpaste then pressed with a texture mat of wood slat/flooring pattern.Then lettered in royal icing which Dora will be holding when seated on the cake.
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Dora' Backpack
This is the base piece for the Dora 3D chocolate figure. The cake is Triple chocolate fudge LAVA cake and the riser is butter vanilla yellow with buttercream. The blue square on the bottom of the picture is a alignment mark for the figure. Since i will not be there to set up the cake....I had to mark where the dowels are....since the figure weighs over 3 lbs.
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Rescue Truck...in Process
This is a add on for a retirement of a Rescue Chief cake. The actual cakes will be added when complete. the rescue truck is chocolate/chocolate fudge with Gumpaste covering. The cakes this will adorn will be shaped like 3 shields showing the transition thru the years. Much respect will be embedded in this project.
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Edible Bracelets
These were created for the birthday girl to nibble on while everyone was filling their plates. In the picture they are strung on thin florists wire to allow drying. When set up for Gianna (the party girl) I took cotton candy and made a thin string, passed it thru the bracelet pieces and tied the ends. So all of the bracelets were edible. (the two braclets lasted about 10 minutes)
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Pit Bull....now Done
This is a cake....Working from ONE photo of dog..... Rice crispy treats covered in gumpaste, relief features added with small pieces of gumpaste. Then covered with another layer of gumpaste. All paintwork is hand brushed effect. Yellow,light brown then darker brown with some light gold dust blown in for depth. I added signs...One has Beware of Dog...but, Smoky got hungry and bit part of it off. The other sign is theHappy Birthday ,the person the cake was made for is also a chef. he LOVED it.
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Top Layer With Tiara
Cake is Chocolate fudge truffle with chocolate cannoli creme filling. Combination of design elements. Hand drawn roses outlined in Royal icing,lace effect. Tiara is gumpaste (idea from this site!) thru a clay gun with pulled sugar jewels covered in silver luster dust,overshot with bakers glaze to give it some luster.
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Birthday Cake With Lace And Swags
This is a freebie!......The birthday girl wanted to learn how to do what we do.So she helped level,ice and cover in fondant. I did the swags and lace work. The cake is not complete yet. Since I had to send her a pic of the cake I figured I would upload it here also.
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Detail Pieces For A Christening Cake
These are a set of baby booties and bracelets as add on items for a christening/first birthday cake for a co worker. all were made from fondant. Each piece is handpainted and then placed on floral wire. The bracelets were hung on the baby booties for presentation.
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Birthday Cake With Fondant Butterfly
This was a OOPS cake!....They forgot to tell me the date and the night before the birthday party I got the frantic phone call. The cake is Chocolate with triple chocolate fudge truffle mousse filling, covered in ganache with crystallized sugar. The butterfly is a Morpheous made of fondant and brush painted with airbrush accents to make it look more realistic