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Birthday boy likes penguins, but hates the cold, so this little guy is hanging out on the beach! Six inch round cake body, and five inch ball cake head; both are vanilla cake decorated with vanilla buttercream. Gum paste sunglasses. Volleyball is a hollow white chocolate ball that I filled with cherry Jolly Ranchers (one of the birthday boy's favorite candies.) Graham cracker sand. A fun cake to make!
Got the idea from a FB video (link listed below). Vanilla cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling encased in a chocolate shell that's the size of a three liter bottle of soda. Glass and ice are poured isomalt sugar. Label is from the actual Diet Coke bottle and not edible. https://www.facebook.com/firstmediasoyummy/videos/1755731108074366/
Ten inch chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Gum paste bluebonnets.
Margarita glass is filled with essentially a giant cake ball mixture of strawberry cake and strawberry buttercream. Fondant strawberry with piped royal icing seeds and gum paste leaves. Rim of the glass is coated in sanding sugar. Queso bowl is lemon cake with vanilla buttercream filling. Queso on top is colored vanilla buttercream, as is the guacamole. Ground beef is dark chocolate buttercream with crushed chocolate graham crackers mixed in. Chip basket is made from gum paste strips that I wove together. Chips are a fondant/modeling chocolate mixture with large black sugar crystals mixed in to resemble the black spots on real tortilla chips. Tissue paper is wafer (rice) paper so it's edible too! Only the margarita glass and straw are inedible.
Cake for my son's PE coaches. All edible - even the ball! Three 8" round luscious lemon cakes with vanilla buttercream filling stacked up and then carved down to taper it a bit. All are covered and decorated with fondant. Cake board is covered with fondant as well, and painted with food coloring to resemble wood. I'm super proud of my basketball - it's chocolate! Fondant accents and 35.
Everything is edible! Chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Fondant was then brushed with powdered food coloring to give color, highlights, and accents. Moss is crushed graham crackers mixed with green food coloring. Leaves are wafer paper and acorns are chocolate. Cake board is covered with fondant to resemble grass. A fun cake to make!
Cake for the wonderful band teachers at my son's school. Top tier is vanilla cake, bottom tier is luscious lemon cake. Both have vanilla buttercream filling and are covered and decorated with fondant. Gumpaste note topper and tuba bell. Cake separator is an acrylic container that I filled with a homemade sprinkle mix of the school colors - the black ones are music notes! Tuba bell is filled with custom M&Ms - school colors, and the red and white ones have either the school initials or a music note on them. Music on the bottom tier is the first few measures of the Imperial March for the tuba. Nerve wracking to assemble, but I'm super happy with how it turned out!
Eight inch vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Top piece is a Rice Krispies Treat covered in fondant. Fondant charcoal briquettes brushed with white food coloring. Rock candy fire. Rice Krispies Treat corn and ribs - both are covered with fondant and brushed with some food coloring. Bamboo skewer grill grate. The fire actually lights up as, there are six tea lights in the middle of the RKT, under the rock candy. They flicker and are remote controlled so the fire can be turned on and off.
8" X 9" cake. The bottom half is a dummy because I wanted a large canvas to work with, but didn't want to overload the recipient with cake. :) Chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling. Stained glass side panels are a 50/50 gum paste/fondant mixture with a piped royal icing outline and painted on food coloring "glass." Gum paste poppy and bluebonnet.
Beauty and the Beast themed gender reveal cake. Eight inch round vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Gumpaste rose, leaves, and petal. The "wood" that the rose is sitting on is actually fondant that's painted with food coloring to look like wood. Glass dome.
6" vanilla cake and 8" lemon cake, both with vanilla buttercream filling. Cakes are covered and decorated with fondant. I love making under the sea cakes because I get to put in so many little details! Everything is edible!
11"X7" chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling. Cake is paneled in fondant with airbrushed details. Fondant tissue paper. Lid is a cake board covered with fondant. Colored white chocolate shoe with gold leaf accents. White chocolate lipstick and nail polish, painted with food coloring. A fun cake to make!
9"X5" loaf pan and 4" round chocolate fudge cakes with dark chocolate buttercream, covered and decorated with fondant. Instead of making the beans out of fondant, I used dark chocolate covered espresso beans (super yummy!). Cream pitcher is real. Cream is white chocolate and white modeling chocolate. The "coffee" in the cup is dark chocolate frosting swirled with white food coloring.
Eight inch round and six inch sphere vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling. Flowerpot is decorated with fondant, and crunched graham cracker sand & dirt. Cactus is decorated with vanilla buttercream and white chocolate needles. Gumpaste flower. Took FOREEEEVER, but really happy with the results! From Colette Peter's book "Colette's Cakes."
Cake for one of my son's teachers. She likes to travel and her favorite color is blue. Six inch chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Edible image maps. Fondant details and gum paste handle.
Cake for one of my son's teachers who likes cats. Six inch dark chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Royal icing hearts. Gum paste kitties and mouse. Inspired by a cake made by Juniper Cakery.
I let my daughter design their own cake this year. Let her choose everything - down to the ribbon on the cake board and the picture backdrop. She decided on a cake with a beaver swimming below, and an tuba and a trumpet saying "Hi" to each other on top. Quite a bit of randomness going there, and I love it. Perfect kindergartener logic! :) Six inch chocolate fudge cake with mint buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Gum paste tuba and trumpet that are brushed with edible luster dust. I included pictures of their drawings (along with my notes). Had a blast creating it!
I let my son design his own birthday cake this year. Let him choose everything - down to the ribbon on the cake board and the picture backdrop. He likes spikes and he'll find and point them out where ever he goes - cacti, spines on a crocodile, the tip of a pen. His cake design fits him perfectly. He chose a fully spiked out cake with a freaked out face on the cake board. Six inch vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Used the Marvelous Molds brick wall onlay for the brick pattern. Hand made about 300 spikes to decorate everything. Put them in a bag with edible bronze luster dust, shook them around, then sprayed them with edible shellac to set the dust. I included pictures of his drawing (along with my notes). Had a blast creating it!
Chocolate ornaments with edible lace decorations. Ball is made from colored white chocolate that's melted and molded. The ball is then brushed with edible sparkly dust, and then coated with an edible shellac. Lace the new Evil Cake Genius brand that can be cooked in the microwave instead of the oven. So much fun to make. I see all the flaws in them, but for a first effort, I'm really pleased with how they came out.
Cakes for my son's PE coaches. Baseball hats are chocolate fudge cakes with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Gum paste brims. Fondant whistles and cords. Footballs are hollow dark chocolates with food coloring laces. All other balls are hollow white chocolates. Baseballs have food coloring laces. Tennis balls are covered with yellow sanding sugar.
8" and 6" round cakes covered and decorated with fondant. Rice Krispies Treats beehive dipped in chocolate. Gumpaste bees and flowers.
Cake for my son's Language Arts teacher who enjoys reading. Rather than ask what her favorite books are, I thought it'd be more fun to be creative with the titles. :) Book stack is a dark chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling. Smaller book is made from Rice Krispies Treats "glued" together with dark chocolate. Both "books" are covered and decorated with fondant White chocolate apple with a fondant stem. Notebook paper is wafer (rice) paper with edible marker lines.
Six inch and three inch lemon cakes with vanilla buttercream filling. Chopsticks are real. Colored vanilla buttercream "tea" with gum paste steam. Gum paste saucer. Fondant ramen, meat, egg, surimi, and napkin. Seaweed and green onion are wafer (rice) paper colored with food coloring.
Mad scientist cake for my son's science teacher! I made one similar to this a few years ago and enjoyed making it so much that I decided to do a variation of it this time. Cake is supposed to resemble a large beaker. Six inch chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Her favorite color is yellow, but I think we all know what a beaker filled with yellow liquid would resemble (ahem), so I changed the colors so it would (hopefully) look like orange liquid with yellow gas and bubbles. Bubbles are painted with edible luster dust. White chocolate brain and maggots, each colored with some powdered food coloring. Gel frosting blood. White chocolate skull and crossbones. Glass vials are filled them with sprinkles and colored water. Glass syringe, and plastic petri dish. She loved it! Had lots of fun with all the details.
Cake for my son's teacher who enjoys carpentry as one of his hobbies. Six inch chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered with fondant and bushed with powdered food coloring. Rotary saw blade and nails are gum paste. Fondant sawdust. Hand saw is chocolate - blade is dark chocolate that's airbrushed silver; handle is colored white chocolate. Modeling chocolate chisel. A super fun cake to make!
Pancake cake for my son's band teacher. 6" chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling. The school recently had a pancake breakfast fundraiser for band, so this design seemed to fit the bill. :)
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