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This cake was completed in a bit of a rush so it's not the neatest of efforts. I'd like to redo taking my time as I like the design a lot. It's a vanilla cake layered with chocolate ganache, covered in chocolate ganache and then decorated with gumpaste cutouts made using a Martha Steward punch and painted gold. It was for my husband's birthday and he loved it.
This cake is based on one of RenP's gorgeous designs - I used a different punch/cutter and different colours, but full credit for the creative genius must go to RenP! I made the cake for my SIL's 50th birthday. Top tier was lemon with white chocolate ganache, middle tier was chocolate with dark chocolate ganache and the bottom tier was a dummy. She loved it, so I was happy.
Inspiration (okay, a blatant copy) from yorkiemom1023 and lepititcakes gorgeous creations. Mine was a 10 inch square vanilla cake with cherry IMBC for my daughter's seventh birthday. Gumpaste cutouts of blue birds and number seven from hand-drawn templates, clay gun used to create stems, butterflies and flowers from standard cutters. It came together really quickly and I love the colours.
My nephew's fifth birthday cake. Chocolate cake covered in ganache then fondant. This cake was lots of fun to make and I was very happy with my little alien. CC was a huge source of inspiration - so thank you fellow spaceship-makers.
This was made for my daughter's 6th birthday. Top and bottom tiers are dummies, middle tier chocolate mud cake. Turrets made from ice cream cones. This was so much fun to make - thanks to all my fellow CC-castle-cake-makers for the inspiration,
The hat is 1x7", 2x6", 1x5" chocolate cakes, filled with chocolate ganache, stacked, carved to shape, covered in ganache then covered in fondant. I used a necklace to texture the fondant, then dusted with black and green powdered colour to give it a fabric look and hand-painted the gold detail. Tea cups were made using the Wilton mini-wonder pans. Gumpaste teacup handles, gumpaste ribbon and gumpaste hat pin decorations. A dowel kept the teacups upright and attached to the hat. Made for my daughter's 7th birthday - we took 19x7 year old girls to see Alice in Wonderland at the movies then back to our place for a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. I was exhausted by the end of the day.
For my daughter's second birthday and inspired by the many beautiful FiFi cakes on this site. Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache. 7 inch, 6 inch and 5 inch layers carved to shape, covered in sugarpaste with gumpaste decorations. FiFi all gumpaste and a lot of fun to make. My daughter loved it - she kept pointing to the door and saying "Open it, Mummy".
A small cake for my niece who turned 10. 6 inch and 4 inch tiers, chocolate cake with chocolate ganache, covered in sugarpaste with gumpaste dots and bows.
I made this for my DH's 49th birthday using the wilton dolly varden pan (I think that's what it's called) and a 9 inch circle. Cakes carved to shape, ganached and then covered in fondant. I had lots of fun with this.
I made this for my niece's birthday. Top tier is 4 inches, vanilla butter cake with white chocolate ganache. Bottom tier is 6 inches, chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache. The little daisy held up until the last moment, then needed a prop - the poor thing!
This was for my daughter's 6th birthday. Chococlate cake covered with fondant - my version of Collette Peter's 'Mr Sticky the Chameleon'. Great fun to make. I carved it at night and wasn't happy with it but couldn't work out why. I went to bed and when I woke up I knew exactly what was wrong - I hadn't carved the underneath - as soon as I shaped the bottom, it came to life. Fondant painted with petal dust/lustre dust to make it really vibrant.
Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache filiing, covered with fondant and hand painted with 'cranberry' lustre dust. Gumpaste flowers. Instructions for carving cake in Lindy Smith's Cakes to Inspire and Desire. I made this for my daughter's 5th birthday - she had a Bollywood themed party and all of the children came dressed in brightly coloured saris. The cake was meant to look like the silk fabric.
I made this for my daughter's third birthday - white chocolate cake with berry IMBC, covered in fondant. Thanks to CakeBaker for her wonderful ballet slipper template (it's in the forums, not the gallery).
Inspired by JaneK's beautiful unicorn and fairy cake. Horse, ribbon and flowers made of gumpaste. 9 inch chocolate cake covered in fondant. Made for a dear friend's daughter's fourth birthday.
I made this cake for my MIL's birthday. Top tier is a dummy (we didn't need that much cake). Bottom tier is carrot cake. Covered in fondant with gumpaste roses, tulips, daphne, sweat pea and freesias. Flowers took about two weeks to make (mostly at night after children were in bed). Cake design inspired by Ron Ben-Israel.
I made this at a cake decorating class over the weekend - it was a great class with a great instructor and a lot of fun.
Deep pink colour achieved by dusting with chalk and then steaming.
Hummingbird cake with cream cheese icing, covered in fondant with lots and lots of dragees! The heart and 'DADDY' were made out of gumpaste. Yes, this is a copy of Kate Sullivan's Jackpot cake (with a few changes)
Yellow roses made from gumpaste. Thankfully, you can't see the face washers used to support the roses in the glass jug!
This cake was so much fun to make. The flower colours faded quite a bit before I assembled it, so it's not as vibrant as I had hoped. Still happy with the outcome though.
This was made for my MIL's birthday. Chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and covered in white chocolate with gumpaste roses. The cake was made in the middle of winter (in the middle of the night) and the white chocolate set so fast that I couldn't get it smooth - in the end I just went with the slightly rustic look.
I made this for my daughter's second birthday. Covered with fondant with gum paste flowers. The little princess on top was made using cakecentral's directions for the fairies. Imogen's little face just lit up when she saw this - it was well worth the effort.
This is my second cake - both layers (5" and 7") are chocolate with white chocolate bc filling. Covered in fondant, with fondant pearls and gumpaste roses. I can see so many flaws, but if I squint and look at it sideways, I'm really happy with it. My MIL loved it.
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