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Teal Cupcake Wedding
The top cake is peanut butter with Nutella filling, iced with SMBC. The cupcakes are hazelnut with SMBC. Cupcake tree stand. I enjoyed working with this couple, I hope they are happy! The top cake looks like it is leaning on the top of the stand...but the stand was put together solidly....the cake itself was level (I checked it) so maybe I just can't take a straight picture.
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Square With Lillies...grr...
This cake almost killed me. 3 tier offset square in cream cheese frosting which is a NEVER AGAIN!!! Bugger of a time getting it smooth, trouble piping. The sugar jewels did not sparkle but sat there like glass lumps. Tried to add sparkle by painting with brilliant silver platinum dust....the flowers are all gumpaste. There is supposed to be a topper but it wasn't at the venue for me to place per the contract. I can see I left the remainder of my jewels sitting on the table....classy. I hope someone sees them and gets them off. Tried calling the venue but nobody answered and I didn't see picture until after wedding had started.
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Large Mouth Bass
A client wanted a 3D bass fish with a rhinestone hook in its mouth. So here he is. I carved this out of chocolate pound cake and covered him in fondant then impressed him with a fish scale mat. Fins are gumpaste and held on with skewers supported by lollipop sticks underneath. Hook is gumpaste covered wire with sugar jewels glued on with RI.
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Ninjas
A student at the karate school where I teach wanted a birthday cake that had a black ninja and a red ninja fighting with gold swords. So, that's what he got! The cake is buttercream iced and sponged. The ninjas are wire framed with modeling chocolate to fill out the bodies and pre-colored fondant to make the clothes. The swords weren't as thin and sharp looking as I'd have liked, but I was happy with how they looked. I discovered that somehow I had lost my black petal dust so I highlighted the black creases with food coloring and that was a mistake...they are shiny. I'll look more carefully next time!
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Dinosaur Cake
This is for a client who needs egg free cakes for allergies. They requested a TRex and I did it in buttercream because my fondant had been touched with gumpaste tools and I didn't want to risk cross contamination. I textured it a bit with a paintbrush. I think it looked kinda nice but for the crooked writing.
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karateka
80Th Birthday Cupcake Garden
Client requested a large cupcake with a stargazer lily on top, and 30 cupcakes to go with, each with its own RI garden flower. I used pansies, roses, mums, carnations, and daffodils. I hope she likes it, I'm really happy with it. I know the large cupcake looks like it is leaning...but that sucker is solid!
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90Th Birthday
2 tier chocolate with ganache and dark chocolate fondant. Used sugarcraft gun to extrude lines on top tier. Bottom tier's border is sponged luster dust. Peonies were airbrushed super gold luster dust. TOpper is white modeling chocolate with gold sugar and painted RI with flower wire painted gold. Made for my grandfather's 90th because he loves chocolate. He ate 2 bites of it...said it was too sweet.