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Centerpiece display for my son's 5th grade graduation party at his school (all the cakes are dummies). The theme was "#PeaceOutDCE" so this was the design I came up with. 6", 8", 10", 12" dummies all covered and decorated with fondant. I really love everything about this cake, and am really proud of how it turned out. The ruffled roses took FOREVER, but I think they look amazing. I made the standing cake topper myself, and the multicolored bow was tricky but came out great!
Birthday cake for a friend's son. 10" square vanilla cake tapered down in the front. Buttercream water; gum paste wave and letters; modeling chocolate and gum paste surfer; graham cracker sand and chocolate shells. A fun cake to make! Super happy with how my surfer came out - making people can be intimidating and tricky!
Birthday cake for my son's Math and Science teacher. Her favorite colors are blue and green, and she crochets, so I tried to incorporate all of these in the cake. 6" and 8" chocolate fudge cakes with dark chocolate buttercream. Cakes are covered and decorated with fondant. Gumpaste flowers. Got to try out my new silicone knit molds, and I'm really happy with how this turned out! Inspired by a cake made by Rebekah Wilbur in American Cake Decorating Magazine.
Un-birthday cake for my son's Social Studies and Language Arts teacher. One of her hobbies is genealogy, so the cake is made to look like an open genealogy research book. Two 7"X11" chocolate fudge cakes carved down, filled with dark chocolate frosting, then covered and decorated with fondant. Pages are edible image made from familytreetemplate.com downloads. Tree is made from gum paste and floral wire. Tree trunk has an "I" since it's the first letter of her last name.
Un-birthday cake for a friend. Cake is designed and decorated to resemble an origami box. Six inch hexagon chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate frosting. Cake was covered with fondant, then decorated with wafer paper. Gumpaste cranes. Inspired by a cake from cakecrafte.com.
Birthday cake for my son. He said he wanted a shark cake for his birthday, so he helped design this! 6" and 8" vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream. Bottom tier is a dummy. All are covered and decorated with fondant. Graham cracker sand with some chocolate rocks.
Birthday cake for my daughter. 6" and 8" chocolate fudge cakes with dark chocolate buttercream filling. Bottom 10" round is a cake dummy. All are covered and decorated with fondant in a PJ Masks theme. Gumpaste moon with a royal icing stenciled design. My daughter specifically wanted the action figures on the cake, so I made a design they would coordinate with. :)
Cake for my daughter's teacher. I tried to make lots of the things she likes (western wear and vintage things), as well as use her favorite colors (maroon and salmon pink). The clock radio is similar to a 1959 Zenith model she had in her office. 11"X5" chocolate fudge cake filled with dark chocolate buttercream. Cake is covered and decorated with fondant. Dark chocolate cowboy boot. Gumpaste cowboy hat.
Birthday cake for my daughter's teacher. 7"X5.5" chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Fondant pencil and scissors. Apple is white chocolate with fondant leaf and stem.
Two 8" chocolate fudge cake rounds tapered and carved down to a 6" top and 4.75 bottom. Cakes are filled with dark chocolate buttercream frosting, and then covered and decorated with fondant. Graham cracker sand and white chocolate shells. A fun cake to make!
Teacher Appreciation cake for my son's school. Hat and t-shirt sleeves are lemon cake with vanilla buttercream, upper half of t-shirt body is vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, lower half of t-shirt body is chocolate cake with dark chocolate buttercream. All are covered and decorated with fondant. Horse is chocolate molded from a cake pan.
First communion cake for a friend's son. Six inch round chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate frosting filling, covered and decorated with fondant. Gumpaste cross.
Birthday cake for a young lady who likes soccer, unicorns, and rainbows. Two 6" vanilla cakes with vanilla buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Gumpaste rainbow, clouds, unicorn, an soccer ball. A fun cake to make!
Chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered and decorated with fondant. "Dirt" is made from crushed Oreos.
My turn to make a geode cake! :) Birthday cake for my son's teacher. Bottom tier is an 8" cake dummy, top tier is a 6" chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate fudge filling, covered with fondant. Geode crystals are rock candy. Cake topper is made from poured sugar and more rock candy. Gold accents were done with gold food coloring and edible gold leaf. A fun (and at times frustrating) cake to make. Learned a lot!
Elsa doll dress cake. Her dress train is the cake. I used a couple of tutorials sold by the Ipoh Bakery in Malaysia. Lemon cake with vanilla buttercream carved down, then covered and decorated with fondant.
My son asked for a "pile of scrap" cake to go with his Dinotrux Scraptors, so this is what I came up with. Two 6" round chocolate fudge cakes with dark chocolate frosting, covered and decorated with fondant, then airbrushed. Molded gumpaste and chocolate details. Really proud of how the giant hex nuts turned out - they're chocolate that were airbrushed. Fun cake to design and make!
Christmas cake for a friend. Six inch chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered with fondant and then sprinkled with sanding sugar to give a snow-covered look. Gumpaste snowflakes dusted with edible luster dust and candy pearls. White chocolate snowflakes dusted with edible sparkly dust are on the cake board. A fun cake to make!
Cake for a Spider-Man fan. Only the top tier is cake - chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Gumpaste buildings with royal icing stenciled windows. Both Spider-Men are toys. I found the suction cup toys, and REALLY wanted a way to incorporate them into the cake without cake overload, so I used styrofoam cake dummies for the brick tier. Bricks are made using fondant in a silicone mold.
Cakes for a friend's birthday. Everything is edible except the margarita glass and the straw. The margarita glass basically has a giant cake ball mushed in it made from margarita cake and margarita frosting. The lime is fondant. The "jalapeno ranch" dip bowl is made from chocolate, and the dip is vanilla frosting with green chocolate bits mixed in. The chip bowl is chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate frosting filling, and is covered and decorated with fondant. The tortilla chips are made from a modeling chocolate & fondant mixture, with some chocolate cookie bits mixed in. A really fun cake to make!
6" and 8" chocolate fudge cake rounds with dark chocolate buttercream filing. Cakes are covered with fondant, then decorated with hand painted leaves. Leaf outlines were done with an edible marker. Gumpaste mice and hedgehogs, modeling chocolate pumpkins and apples.
10", 8", 6", 4" goth birthday cake for the daughter of a friend. Bottom tier is a cake dummy. Top three tiers are red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream. All are covered and decorated with fondant. Second tier lace was done using a mesh stencil. Gumpaste roses and leaves.
Six inch round vanilla purse cake, carved down a bit, and then covered and decorated with fondant. Gumpaste handle.
Graduation cake for the daughter of a friend. They wanted to poke fun at her messy room one last time before she went off to college. :) 4"X8" vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling, covered with fondant. Comforter is fondant with hand painted leopard spots. Fondant and gumpaste accessories. Cake board is covered with brown fondant and textured to look like carpet. A fun cake to make!
Nine inch round vanilla checkerboard cake for Memorial Day. Vanilla buttercream filling. Fondant and gumpaste bow (inspired by Wild Orchid Baking Company). Thank you to all who have served our country!
Cake for the wonderful folks that work at our local comic book store. Why? Just because. They're always friendly and helpful, they have great loot at their store, and it's great having a comic shop so close by (helps me spend what little leftover cake money I have... ;) ). Moon is lemon cake with vanilla buttercream; bottom tier is 8" chocolate fudge cake with dark chocolate buttercream. Cakes are covered with fondant. Buildings are gumpaste with stenciled royal icing windows. Sound effects are gumpaste with edible images. A fun cake to make (especially the moon craters)!
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