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This recipe was incredible ~ the kind you close your eyes and moan while you eat! Angel food cake split and filled with a tropical whipped cream mixture with pineapple and coconut... topped with strawberries. A very "light" cake. (just don't count calories from all the whipped cream!)
I made this not only to practise, but to have something to give my son since he couldn't have any of the shower cake he watched me make for my dil!! The flowers were made from a chocolate fondant recipe I found after being told by the Wilton teacher that there was no such thing.
The result of the Wilton class on tiered cakes. I rather liked it ~ and was proud of myself.
My first (and only) fondant cake. This was the fondant lesson at the Wilton course. It turned out okay, I thought. However, I have since used only bc simply because the taste is better.
This was done at my Wilton basketweave lesson. My son thought it would look cool to cut a piece out like that, and set the empty plate next to it for a picture! He was right, it made a good picture. White cake, whipped chocolate ganache, lousy Wilton bc recipe.
This was for my dil's bridal shower. I am so unsure about sizes of cakes so ~ although this was meant to feed 40, it probably could have fed 70. Strawberry shortcake is her favourite, so aside from the chocolate basketweave, it's white cake with whipped cream and berries. I ran out of chocolate used for the basket piping ~ so you see where one stopped and the other started.
This was a scramble to fix up! The icing was melting... the tiers collapsing.. There 'were' four tiers. When I started assembling them at the hall, they kept tilting and would have crashed. They smooshed into the lower cake and when removed; the top icing ~removed~ with them! Luckily I had brought a LOT of extra icing and the hall owner was able to "donate" the platters. The hydrangeas were not planned, but used to save the day! First wedding cake.. and for my son. (my DIL still loves me!)
The cake is white with a vanilla mousse. I sure do love SMBC!
Okay, it didn't quite turn out the way it was in my imagination. I wanted it to look like a basketball had landed on/ruined a birthday cake. I want to try this idea again, but differently. The feather at the front was put there because the girl's name is Feather... she LOVED it!
This is quite typical of the fancy occasion cakes the Finns have. This one was split into three layers; each layer brushed with Amaretto, a thin layer of apricot jam, then whipped cream. Whipped cream with almond slices around the sides, and as you can see, fresh and canned fruit with a gelatin-type glaze on the top. It was made for the birthday party they gave for my Mom after the church service. I think it served approximately 40. Tacky serving platter, I know.
Okay, I have to admit: I am SO proud of this one! It's hazelnut, hazelnut, with more hazelnut. The filling is a whipped ganache milk chocolate with choco-hazelnut flavouring. YUM! I think I'd have to put it in the "to die for" category. It's jkalman's smbc with fondant leaves and acorns... a few chocolate leaves thrown here and there. The pumpkin was cake. The bottom was 11X16X4. Thank you ALL for the ideas and inspiration!
This was around 18" long ~ pumpkin cake with pumpkin mousse filling ~ buttercream It was my first sculptured cake, and I really enjoyed making it. I forgot a guitar had a pick guard...
This is "The" cake that has made me proud for the first time. I'm always ultra-critical about my cakes, as some of you can relate to! Thank you to those of you marvellous people that have been such a help ~ and inspiration.
The neck is rice krispie treat; half the body pumpkin with pumpkin mousse; the other apple with a homemade chunky applesauce; covered with smbc. The cake board was 40" long! I tried to blend the dark brown into the light, but obviously have to discover another way to do it.
I'd like to do more cupcakes. I think they are more forgiving than cakes. The flowers were all made of royal icing during the Wilton classes. The picture was taken just before transporting them... thus the toothpicks!
I had one day's warning on this one. I tried to hide the columns, but can see that I didn't do it quite well enough. I really need help icing! Thank goodness family is so forgiving.
The idea was good... the execution could be better. My son loved it and that's what really matters. Practice, practice, practice!
You learn from mistakes... right? (I've learned SO much lately!) HOT humid day - melting icing - falling cake - fingers! Oh well, they loved it anyway. WASC w/peaches and cream filling.
The bride and groom met while working at McD's and bought the topper to commemorate that. I used cheeseburger wrappers between the tiers. WASC w/caramel and marshmallow/cream cheese fillings.
These are an enriched rainbow chip cake mix with a butter cream icing. Oh, with regular store-bought Easter eggs.
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