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This is all cake (no rice crispy treats or piping/tubing) it is iced with buttercream. The red and black accents are fondant.
Baby Shower - Nightmare before Christmas Iced with buttercream, "swirls" buttercream. Tree and grass made with fondant. Grass, rocks, pumpkins and moon are gum paste. Body of "buggy" is Styrofoam covered with gum paste.
Palm tree is gum paste, flowers and rocks are fondant, tiki head and "drift wood" plaque are chocolate, water is piping gel, "fence" is store bought rolled wafers and the "sand" is crushed butter cookies mixed with light brown sugar. Cake iced in buttercream icing and the grass is buttercream.
A take on Monet's Water Lily's painting. Okay, so I am no "Monet"! Today my eldest daughter (Cordelia) is 40 today. The little girl topper was on her 4th birthday cake (there is lots of meaning behind this topper). My mother always called her "the 40 year old 4 year old" so I thought this was appropriate. This idea came from caljavaint's you tube page with Bronwen Weber.
She just kicked over a refrigerator and stomped it into the floor. (It has meaning for the birthday girl.) One on the left is before. Cake is chocolate with vanilla filling. Woman and fridge are made with gum paste. (Once I painted her I thought she looked scary but I think it is the light and/or angle.)
Front view of Piggy family in mud bath. Ribbon says "it's a girl" all over it in different fonts. I do not know who the original cake decorator was for this design but if you are on Cake Central I would like to say "Thank You" and please feel free to post your name. I would like you to get credit for the original idea.
This is what I have spent yesterday and most of today working on. I tried to make the hat look old but it just looks a mess. It is iced in buttercream. The brim and band are fondant. The "sign" is edible rice paper and written with edible ink. Tea pot (which is supposed t look like it is tipping) is covered with fondant and hand painted with edible "paint". Roses are fondant. Had lots of problems with this one. You can see all the wrinkles under the handle from where the cake started slipping, and the purple is turning blue.
Everything is buttercream except the birds, they are gum paste.
Cake is iced in buttercream. Stringed beads and coins are store bought (I was not charging a lot so I did not want to spend time making them). The beads around the border are edible. The "diamond" shapes are fondant. I have been wanting to make a mask, the mask and feathers are made with gum paste.
Chocolate cupcakes, chocolate icing, coated with dark chocotlate mint candy melts. (One suggestion I would have when making these use a thin aluminum foil not the heavy duty.)
Owl. All buttercream, icing and decorations. Owl is cake too.
Pheonix is made of gum paste. Flames on side and top center are made with fondant (no tylose added). The rest is all buttercream. Top layer is white chocolate, bottom is pistachio. For my husband's birthday. When we were dating he wrote a lot and one of his stories mentioned a Pheonix rising from the flames. But, would make a good Harry Potter cake too.
Starry Night Cupcake Cake.
Cake is banana cream, "spaghetti" is buttercream with a little cocoa powder to get the right color. "Meatballs" are cake balls dipped in chocolate and the "sauce" is raspberry filling with some melted chocolate mixed in to get a darker color.
Cake is iced in buttercream, accents are fondant (bow, eye patch, eye and nose). For a girl how likes Betsy Johnson purses with skulls on them.
Purse is stacked and carved from two 1/4 sheet cakes. Airbrushed stipes (need to work on my airbrush techniques).
Been experimenting. I had an idea and wanted to try it out to see if it would work. These are my "glass slippers". They are made from gelatin, one has glitter on it the other does not. I made them pink so they would be easier to see, especially for a first try. And the only edible glitter, I had on hands, was a pale yellow.
For granddaughter's 11th birthday. It is covered in buttercream and fondant used to give it the time machine look. It is two layers of chocolate cake, two layers yellow cake and two more layers chocolate cake. It is 6 X 6 X 11.
All buttercream and BCT except hat, boots and gun are gum paste.
Cake is iced with buttercream, feathers are made with fondant, peacock is made with gum paste.
Buttercream except "prickers" and cactus flower, they are royal icing.
I tried to make the cake look like the embroidered patch.
This was a last minute (4 hours notice). Iced in buttercream. Kitten is a fondant/gum paste mix.
Buttercream icing, gerbera daisy
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