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Beach-Themed Birthday Cake
This is a hummingbird cake constructed with two 11x17 layers and large and regular cupcakes as the castle. The cake is frosted with Swiss meringue buttercream frosting, which is then covered with brown sugar for a sandy effect. The cake is filled with white chocolate custard and decorated with hand-painted chocolate shells, jellybean rocks, chocolate pebbles, double-chocolate pirouline cookies, and a chocolate surf board. The red flag is a fruit roll-up.
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Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes
I made these cupcakes for a potluck at work. The frosting was delicious! I got the idea and recipes from the Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit ( http://cupcakeblog.com/index.php/2007/10/gluten-free-and-gluten-full-chocolate-cupcakes-with-salted-caramel-frosting ). Check out her other recipes if you get a chance - they are great. I didn't use her chocolate cupcake recipe for these though - I used my old Hershey's cocoa cake recipe.
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Bridal Shower Cosmo Cake
I mad this cake for a friend's bridal shower. It's two layer 12x18 inch Devilâs food cake carved to look like a Cosmopolitan. It is decorated and filled with butter roux icing. Pink-tinted piping gel was used for the liquid. The cake truffles were made with amaretto coffee cream and butter roux icing, dipped in pink-tinted milk chocolate and topped with a piece of licorice to resemble a cherry.
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This Is The Other Cake I Made For My Best Friend Whose Favorite Tarot Card Is The Star This Is Two 9 Inch Round Deep Chocolate Almond Cake
This is the other cake I made for my best friend, whose favorite tarot card is The Star. This is two 9 inch round deep chocolate almond cake with caramel filling. The cake is frosted with chocolate cream cheese frosting. It is decorated to mirror the earth image in the tarot card on the other cake. Several different meanings of the card are written around the side of the cake. Hand painted with silver luster dust.
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I Made This Cake For My Best Friend Whose Favorite Tarot Card Is The Star This Is A 13X9 Sheet Ginger Orange Carrot Cake Torted With Caram
I made this cake for my best friend, whose favorite tarot card is The Star. This is a 13X9 sheet ginger orange carrot cake torted with caramel and cream cheese frosting. The cake is decorated with vanilla cream cheese frosting and an edible image of the tarot card. Accented with silver luster dust.
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Skateboardin' Fun
I totally loved doing this cake. It was for my friend's grandson. It is a Hersheys cocoa cake constructed with one 13X9 inch sheet and one 9 inch round cut in half. The cake is frosted with chocolate cream cheese frosting, which is then covered with black-tinted milk chocolate ganache. It is decorated with frozen cream cheese frosting transfers and royal icing lettering. The skateboard trucks are made with sugar cookies, cookie straws, milk chocolate candy melts, royal icing, and chocolate-covered donuts.
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First Time Painting W/ Buttercream
I made this for a graduation party for my nephew who is going to college. A two layer 17x11 inch cake with two flavors one half is a vanilla butter cake filled with french vanilla mousse and the other half german chocolate-chocolate chip cake filled with caramel coconut pecan filling. Frosted with vanilla buttercream. The Wasatch Mountains scene is hand-painted (first time) in buttercream.
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Good Luck Cake
I made these cakes for a coworker who left to open her own coffee shop. The mug is a tiramisu cake (white sponge cake soaked with a Kahlua syrup filled with mascarpone mousse and grated semisweet chocolate). Frosted with vanilla buttercream. The logo is a frozen FBCT and the handle is MMF. The other cake is two layers vanilla butterscotch cake and chocolate fudge almond cake, filled with Nutella mousse and frosted with vanilla buttercream. Decorated with sugar cookies covered with MMF and glace.
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Birthday Cake For Sister-In-Law
I made this cake for my sister-in-law. She is really into scrapbooking and crafts. She just made a couple of acrostic pages for my other sister-in-law. (An acrostic is a poem or other writing in which the letters of a word spells out another message.) It a 13X9 sheet chocolate almond cake torted with rich caramel and a dark chocolate mousse. The cake is frosted with dark chocolate buttercream and pink-tinted vanilla buttercream.
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Snow White Birthday Cake
I made this cake for my daughter's 4th birthday. Her favorite princess is Snow White. This is an 9 inch round flower-shaped two layer Devils food cake with strawberry cream filling. The cake is frosted with vanilla whipped cream buttercream and decorated with a frozen buttercream transfer.
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Basketball Birthday Cake
This is an 11x17 inch French vanilla cake and an 8 inch half ball cake torted with peanut butter mousse and chopped Reeses peanut butter cups and frosted with vanilla whipped cream butter cream. I made this cake for a friend for her son's birthday. I tried to duplicate the one imbkay13 did, but mine didn't turn out as nice. Oh well, at least my friend was happy with it. I'll have to try this one again when I get a chance. Practice makes perfect, right?
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Dark Chocolate Fudge Birthday Cake
I made this cake for my husband's 41st birthday. It is a homemade 2-layer dark chocolate fudge cake torted into four layers filled with dark chocolate fudge mousse. The frosting is semisweet chocolate ganache and 41 hand-dipped raspberries. I topped the raspberries off with leftover ganache for some extra chocolatey goodness. It was delicious.